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them. I trust to be ready for the press in March next. Perhaps 

 you will let me have your opinion of some of these points at your 

 leisure. — Believe me, sincerely yours, Charles C. Babington. 



Are you the cause of Hooker lumping Herniaria 1 As to what 

 he says about specimens, I am convinced that there is some mistake. 



To Professor J. H. Balfour, M.D. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, Jan. 7, 1843. 

 Dear Balfour, — I have just thought of a way by which the 

 Botanical Society might continue its "Transactions" at a small 

 expense, even without taking more trouble about them than has 

 been employed during the last year, and write to you about it, so as 

 to get your opinion and recommendation of it, if approved, to the 

 Society. It is probably well known to you that the London Socie- 

 ties print Proceedings, and that the same type that sets them up for 

 the " Annals " Natural Society, also prints them separately for the 

 Societies themselves. Now it appears to me that Taylor would do 

 the same for our "Transactions," printing the papers in the A.N.S., 

 and striking off as many copies for the " Transactions " separate, 

 and separately paged, as the Society might desire. This plan would 

 cost much less to the Society, and by continuing the od. per sheet 

 charge would not ruin the Society. I have said nothing to Taylor, 

 or to Brand about this. What do you think ? I have sent a paper 

 upon a new Carex to the Society for the January meeting. I do not 

 think that the paper upon Hooker's "Flora," which you read, will 

 be printed, as there appear to be considerable objections to pub- 

 lishing it. I now clearly see my way to the completion of my 

 "Manual of British Botany," as I propose to call it; and expect to 

 begin to print not later than March 1st, and so shall, I trust, have 

 it ready for your summer course. I shall have eight or ten plants 

 not in the Catalogue, and therefore of course not in Hooker. How 

 is your class this winter ? — Believe me, yours truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



To the same. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, May 1, 1843. 

 Dear Balfour, — Henslow has just requested me to write to you 

 to say that he has just received a letter from Dr. Alexander, who 

 was authorized by the Archduke John to appoint two botanists as 

 an English deputation to attend the meeting at Gratz in September. 

 Henslow cannot go, and has written to say so, and you were the 

 other person selected, but Dr. Alexander stated that he had left it 

 to Henslow to write to you. Unfortunately the letter has been here 

 for a month unanswered, and so Dr. Alexander is gone from England ; 

 you must therefore write to say if you will or will not go, to the 

 address enclosed. If I could speak German I would have taken 

 Henslow's place, as he proposed to me, but without that accomplish- 

 ment it is useless. I do not suppose that you will accept the above 



