314 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1849—50 



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



St. John's College, Camhuidge, Bee. 20, 1849. 

 Dear Balfour, — I am sorry to learn from Evans that you have 

 been ill, and hope that it has now pleased God to restore your 

 health. I send with this my paper upon the Charae, so that it may 

 be with you in time to look it over before the Meeting, and settle 

 what parts of it should be read in full, and what in abstract. It is 

 rather long, but, as I hope, pretty complete, and contains a fair 

 proportion of novelty. Townsend's paper is come back to me, and 

 is now in his own hands to see if he cannot improve it before 

 publication. I am not quite determined as to its place of 

 publication — in some respects it might do for the "Annals" — in 

 others it is more fitted for the " Gazette." What think you 1 Evans 

 informs me that it is not likely that any of the other papers read at 

 the last Meeting will do for the "Annals," and that they are in 

 jour hands. Might not some of them do for the " Gazette " ? 

 Could not you promote the sale of the latter at Edinburgh 1 You 

 say that you have been endeavouring to arrange the Hieracia 

 according to Fries, and I do not wonder that you have not easily 

 succeeded. I have been, off and on, at work at the same job for 

 weeks past, and am not as yet more than half through them. I 

 may perhaps be able to set yours and the Botanical Society 

 specimens to rights, when I visit the north, as I hope to do next 

 summer. If you had known Fries as well as I do, you would have 

 known that it was quite useless keeping corresponding numbers to 

 the specimens, as he was sure to take no notice of them. It 

 appears that he never answers letters, and the quotations in his 

 book are often wrong numerically. — Believe me, very truly yours, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, Feb. 20, 1860. 

 Dear Balfour, — I am sorry to say that all three of the specimens 

 of Cha7-a belong to forms of one species — C. fragilis. I return them, 

 but expect to hear that they were all smashed in the journey. 

 Glad to learn that you have got some papers for the "A. N. H." 

 and also "Gazette." It was not Chara translmens* which I wanted 

 from you or Greville, but C. aspera, from the Orkney Station. I 

 am glad to find that you may be able to arrange so as to let the 

 Association Meeting commence on what has become the usual day 

 of the week. A change in that respect puts people out. I am not 

 a little curious to see ArnoU's "Flora," for his I suppose that it is, 

 and hope that he will not cut mine out, that is all. I confess that I 

 do not think that he is likely to do so. So you are going to get the 

 herbarium into showable order for the Association Meeting. You 

 do well, for it is of much consequence to make a good show then. — 

 Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



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