xlvi CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



profited for my key to the system of Victorian plants, the genial 

 friend to so many Phytologists, including the writer of these lines. 

 You will particularly feel his loss, as you so long particularly 



cooperated with this distinguished veteran Perhaps he saw 



still the aged Todea-fern, which I sent to your garden, and it may 

 have been a source of novel joy to him to have seen unfolding the 

 numerous fronds of this ancient specimen. 



(To Mrs. C. C. B.) . . . . I now express once more my high 

 sense of appreciation of the services which he has rendered to the 

 science of plants, not only through his admirable teachings, but also 

 by his applying it to special research both in the study rooms and 

 in the fields of free nature, and this unabatingly through so long a 

 space of time, as to render him through the autumn of his life the 

 Nestor of the Linnean Society. As the genus Bahingtonia of our 

 never-to-be-forgotten friend. Professor Lindley, has been transferred 

 to the Linnean genus Baeckea, it is my intention to bestow that 

 name on the first new genus which may here in Australia be dis- 

 covered among plants, and which would be worthy of dedication to 

 an illustrious savant, . . . Since the last fifty years and more, is 

 cultivated in Britain as a summer annual, and in conservatories at 

 all times, what may be considered the most graceful and handsome 

 of all everlastings, the Helipterum Rhodanthe Manglesii. As collater- 

 ally I am identified with this charming flower, perhaps you may like 

 to place a wreath of it occasionally on the tomb of 3'our celebrated 

 consort, which would signify, that also here at the Antipodes we 

 fully recognise the important bearings of Professor Babington's 

 discoveries and work towards biomorphic knowledge. 



From Nathaniel Bridges, Esq. 



Blackheath, S.E., 



July 23, 1895. 



... I cherish a very warm recollection of the dear Professor's 

 sweet Christian character, and must always feel thankful to have 

 been from time to time in contact with it. . . . Many will miss at 

 Braemar his well-known form, and his impressive and courteous 

 presence, as also his well-considered words on interesting subjects, 

 always so modestly expressed. In these bustling, hurrying days, 

 such characters can ill be spared, but we must not lament, when we 

 may well dwell on the peace and blessedness which is now his 

 heritage. May you receive, dear Mrs. Babington, every consolation 

 which He alone can bestow who gave you that which He has now 

 taken to Himself. 



Sept. 29 The papers you have sent have interested me 



deeply ; these are among the many testimonies to the power of the 

 dear Professor's character, upon those (of all kinds) with whom he 

 was in contact, a power expressed by few, rather than many words, 

 and sometimes even by those silent influences which are incapable 



