1875] BOTANICAL COERESPONDENCE. 373 



To Mrs, Barwell Carter, The Anchorage^ Berwick-on-Tweed. 

 5, Bkookside, Cambridge, April 19, 1875. 



Dear Mrs. Carter, — I am much pleased to receive a letter from 

 one of the old Berwick family from whom I have so long been 

 separated — ever since the death of your excellent father.* I have 

 very often thought with much pleasure of the old time when I 

 passed such pleasant days at Berwick, and not only pleasant, but 

 very profitable, from the valuable information conveyed to me by 

 your father. I am glad to learn that you have gone back to live in 

 the old house of which I have such pleasant remembrance. I enclose 

 a photograph, which I hope will please you. I think that it is a 

 good likeness — although very unlike what I used to be so many 

 years since as when I was last at Berwick, otherwise than in passing 

 by rail, I think that I have some letters from your father — although 

 I fear not very many. Such as I have shall be looked for in a few 

 days and sent to you. Just at this moment I have not time to do 

 so. I think that I have before seen the notice of your mother, 

 but thank you much for sending me a copy of it. Please to convey 

 my kindest remembrances and best wishes to Dr. Maclagan. — And 

 believe me to be, very truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambridge, May 6, 1875. 



Dear Mrs, Carter, — I have found a few of your father's letters 

 to me. I thought that I had more of them — but this is all. 

 Some are interesting, as relating to the foundation of the Ray 

 Society. I hope that there is some idea of using them in a memorial 

 of your father, and of course you are at liberty to make such use 

 of them as you may think fit. — Yours very truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



I was quite young when I visited your father. I was born in 

 1808. 



To T. R. Archer Briggs, Esq. 



6, Brookside, Cambridge, Oct. 18, 1875. 



My dear Sir, — I like your Rumex rupestris very much, and find 

 it agrees well with the plants of the French north-west coasts. 

 Trimen tells me that he has received it also from Scilly. My 

 Jersey plant is the same. The large Rumex from Downderry is 

 more difl&cult to determine. I know very little of maximus, and am 

 now led to suppose that it may not be distinct from Rumex Hydrola- 

 pathum, as the base of the leaves is said to be inconstant in form. 

 Many thanks for the other plants — all of which are very valuable 

 to me. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



* Dr. George Johnston. 



