i861] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 353 



To the same. 



Cambridge, June 15, 1861. 



Dear Preston, — I hope to arrive at Marlborough by the second 

 train that you mention on Tuesday next. I am very sorry to learn 

 that you do not think it possible to get the requisite specimens, as 

 I am not sure that I can obtain them on Monday. I think that you 

 take a rather erroneous view of what is required. I expected that 

 you would go out into the country and get wild plants. We do 

 not want to puzzle the boys, but to see if they know the plants, 

 and have named them without help. — Yours truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



(P.S. — June 16. I think that I shall be obliged to leave the 

 getting of the specimens, some of them to Wednesday, at Marlborough. 

 It really signifies very little what the plants are, and I am opposed 

 to giving foreign plants to the boys. If you can get them from the 

 fields on Tuesday, so much the better. — C.C.B.) 



To Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.L 



Cambridge, July 23, 1861. 



Dear Hooker, — G. Henslow informed me that he had a few 

 diagrams to send me. I shall be obliged by your taking their 

 transfer in hand when opportunity off'ers, as you propose. The 

 packages from Stevens have arrived safely. I do not attend the 

 sale to-day — for there seems to be nothing in my way — or at any 

 rate for which I could find space. What has become of all the 

 French flint implements ? I should have very much liked to have 

 obtained one of them for our Antiquarian Museum. Quaritch, of 

 15, Piccadilly, writes to say that a copy of Wright's "Icones PL 

 Indiae " Vols. i. — iv. was withdrawn from the sale as belonging to 

 our Botanical Museum. Is he correct 1 If so, where are the books ? 

 And will you direct that they be sent when opportunity offers, or 

 delivered to Pamplin directed to me ? He also proposes to sell 

 Vols. V. and vi. and index (to complete Wright's book) for £6 15s. 

 Will that complete it, and is the price proper ? I am very much 

 obliged to you for the remarks contained in your letter. They 

 accord exceedingly well with my own ideas, and I fancy were also 

 those of our lamented friend. I propose to myself to follow 

 Henslow's plan of teaching as well as I can, and apply myself 

 almost wholly to the inculcation of clear views upon structural 

 botany and classification. I do not think of entering more into 

 the minute physiological matter than is requisite for the under- 

 standing of ordinary structure. Certainly I shall try to teach 

 clearly " what does a Dicotyledonous seed consist of ? " also how to 

 "pull a flower to pieces," and describe it. I shall endeavour to 

 follow the " Schedule " plan of Henslow — although I am not so 

 familiar with his mode of working it as I could have wished. My 



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