1883] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 399: 



To Alfred Fryer, Esq. 



RuAN Minor, Cornwall, R.S.O., Sept. 15, 1883. 



My dear Sir, — I am indeed very much pleased to learn that you 

 have re-found Sturmia Loeselii, and in such abundance as to render its 

 extirpation improbable. I did not know that there was any fen of 

 the right sort near Chippenham. It is a district but little examined, 

 that is, on the fen side. I hope to be home on or about the first of 

 October, and am very truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To James Backhouse, Esq. 



RuAN Minor, Cornwall, Sept. 24, 1883. 



My dear friends, — I am much grieved to learn from the card so 

 kindly sent to me, that the sad loss, for some time expected, has 

 happened to you and Mrs. Backhouse. May our ever merciful Lord 

 give you strength to bear it, knowing that He does all for the best. 

 He saw that your dear son had done his work upon this earth, and 

 so has taken him to Himself. It is a sad affliction to us to lose a 

 dearly beloved relative, but what a gain to him to be removed from 

 this earth to the Heavenly kingdom. May He bless and preserve to 

 work together here, you and your dear wife and family, is the very 

 sincere wish of your friends, my dear wife and myself. — Your ever 

 affectionate friend, Charles C. Babington. 



To Arthur Bennett, Esq. 



RuAN Minor, Cornwall, Sept. 27, 1883. 



My dear Sir, — I am much obliged to you for the information 

 about Naias, and the interesting discovery of Chara Braunii in 

 Lancashire. I hope that you or the Messrs. Groves will soon give 

 us an account of it in the " Journal of Botany," I shall be very 

 glad indeed to receive and examine the specimens you kindly pro- 

 pose sending. I return home next week. — Yours very truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To A. G. More, Esq. 



5, Brookside, Cambridge, Oct. 30, 1883. 



Dear More, — It is rather long since I wrote to you, as I have 

 been delaying until I could send the book which goes by this same 

 post. It is our very much lamented friend Corry's copy of the 

 "Cybele Hibernica," in which he had commenced entering all 

 extracts from my herbarium which he considered likely to be of 



