From C. C. Babington 21 May 1864
Cambridge
21 May 1864
Dear Darwin,
I supposed that you wanted living specimens.1
I send, such as they are—very poor, some flowers(?) from specimens in my Herbarium.2
Let me know if you want living specimens and they shall be looked for in the proper season
Yours truly | Charles C. Babington—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
CCB thought CD wanted live specimens, but now will send some dried ones from his herbarium.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4505
- From
- Charles Cardale Babington
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 7
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4505,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4505.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12