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US to believe that he intended. There are several instances of 

 Sowerby's plates not being just what Smith meant. I trust to the 

 artist in such cases with much confidence. Please to return my 

 paper to me after it is read, in order that I may make any desirable 

 changes before it goes to press. — Yours very truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



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



St. John's College, Cambridge, Feb. 24, 1855. 



Dear Balfour, — I have advised a young friend of mine, a member 

 of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, to send to you a paper that he 

 has drawn up concerning the plants of a part of the West of Ireland. 

 His name is More, and he is a student of Trinity College here ; he 

 knows a good deal about plants, and takes great interest in them. 

 His paper may suit a meeting of the Botanical Society, and an 

 abstract of it may then go into the report of the meeting. The 

 latter need not be long, and you will perhaps find a few minutes to 

 mark such parts of the paper as seem to you to be deserving of 

 abstraction for publicity. We have not had so long a frost here for 

 many years, and as the temperatures have been very low, I much 

 fear that we shall have a repetition of our losses of last winter. 

 Our new plant houses are acting very well, and there is a singularly 

 great improvement in the appearance of the plants since their 

 removal into them. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To William Borrer, Esq. 



Cambuidge, April 9, 1855. 



My dear Sir, — I am sorry that I omitted to inform you about 

 Griesbach's paper. I however think it is hardly worth your 

 getting, being short, and written in the German language, with the 

 exception of the very short Latin definitions of the sections, and of 

 a few of the species. It is in "Botanische Zeitung von Mohl," 

 1852, No. 49. I wish that I could give you either the Hypcrica or 

 the Ardia at the present time. I shall try to get them for you. I 

 should like to learn from you about the two forms of Vicia 

 hithynica. For I know very little about them. I have just written 

 to Dr. F. Schultz, and as he is to send me some plants soon, I have 

 asked him for the EpiloUa Lamyi and virgatum of Godron. I hope 

 that I shall get them. I have just had a letter from Fries. He 

 says that he hopes in the course of the summer to revise and con- 

 solidate and add to his three " Mantissae " — and publish them as one 

 volume. I hope that he will do so, and that I may get an early copy. 

 For, to my mind, there is no writer upon European plants at all 

 comparable with him. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



I hope that you are to be photographed when in town, like 

 others of the Linnaean and Royal Societies. I have been asked, and 

 complied. 



