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much a,s to form a " Society " in the school. It must do good : 

 more, if they work it in considerable independence than if under 

 the absolute rule of the masters. You will do well to encourage 

 them as much as you can. I hope to remove my things into the 

 new rooms next month, although there are no permanent fittings 

 made, or even ordered. It will be better so, than continuing in the 

 old cramped-up place. Of course no arrangement of the herbarium 

 can be made until the University pleases to give me cases for its 

 preservation. I hope that they will do so soon, but it is very 

 costly. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambridge, March 11, 1865. 



My dear Preston, — I am much obliged to you for sending the 

 rules of your School Natural History Society to me. They seem 

 well fitted for their object, and I am glad to learn that the society 

 works well. I shall lecture this year in the new room, and have 

 now totally evacuated the old place which you were acquainted 

 with. It is wonderful the quantity of things that came out of it. 

 Unfortunately the herbarium is much unarranged, and some parts 

 considerably the worse for the unavoidable neglect it has met 

 with. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Cambridge, March 28, 1865. 



Dear Darwin, — I think that you will be glad to learn that the 

 University has at last provided a proper room for a small Zoological 

 Museum, and that the Philosophical Society contemplates offering 

 its Museum to the University to form part of that to be formed 

 there. As the Philosophical Museum contains a large collection of 

 fish given by you, I think it well to inform you of this. The fish 

 will be better taken care of, and more useful there than where they 

 now are. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



I have got a good place for the University herbarium, and am 

 beginning to get it put to rights. It seems to be very rich and 

 valuable. 



To the Eev. T. A. Preston. 



Cambridge, April 4, 1865. 



Dear Preston, — You shall have the copies of the " Notes " and 

 "Schedule" that you desire. I had hoped to have some remarks upon 

 minute points in the former so as to make it better than it is ; but 

 you have not made them because, I suppose, you do not like to do 

 it, certainly not because it is not wanted. You will see that I have 



