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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

CD had requested Lythrum specimens (see letter from C. C. Babington, 18 May 1864 and n. 2).
Babington sent specimens of Lythrum hyssopifolium from seven different localities; the identifying wrappers and two of the specimens are preserved with the envelope to this letter in DAR 142: 93. CD thanked Babington for sending specimens of what he called L. hyssopifolia in ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria, p. 190 (Collected papers 2: 124). See also letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864] and n. 2.

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

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