434 CHARLES CARD ALE BABINGTON. [1890 



To T. R Archer Briggs, Esq. 



Bhaemah, N.B., Aug. 8, 1890. 

 Dear Mr. Briggs, — I am very much obliged to you for your 

 valuable letter, which will meet with the requisite attention I hope 

 in October. I, yesterday, gathered three species of Pyrola on the 

 mountain near this place, and as I now do not go very high, I can- 

 not expect to see the alpine plants this year. I do not know if any 

 other botanists will find their way here. My old friend, Mr. 

 Townsend, has come to refresh after the labours of Parliament, 

 from which he has suffered considerably I fear. — Yours most truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To Frederick J. Hanbury, Esq. 



Braemar, Sept. 3, 1890. 

 Dear Mr. Hanbury, — I am very much obliged to you for the infor- 

 mation concerning the Hiemcia. I am very glad that I sent two — 

 although I had no intention of doing so — as I thereby obtained the 

 names of them both. I now quite clearly see the points of difference. 

 I am not doing much here, — only adding a few of the low country 

 plants to my list of Braemar plants below about 2500 feet of 

 elevation. I have got a very good list : and such a list seems never 

 to have been made, and may therefore be of interest. Several 

 plants marked as found here in Dickie's " Flora " seem to have been 

 mistakes, but not unnatural ones at the time when he wrote. I am 

 glad to learn that you have been again in the north, and been 

 successful there. Townsend is here, and is much interested in the 

 Flora, and is, as I hope, restoring health, much injured by the 

 House of Commons. I hope that we shall now have good weather. 

 It is singular how many early plants have not yet passed away. 

 The season is wonderfully backward. Accept I request you, our 

 very kindest wishes for you and Mrs. Hanbury, and the children. — 

 Believe me to be, most truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To Professor J. W. H. Trail, University, Aberdeen. 



Cambridge, Nov. 1890. 

 Dear Dr. Trail, — I was in great fear when I read the Valedictory 

 on the cover of the "Scottish Naturalist," and I am much pleased 

 to learn that you have not separated from it, but will attend to the 

 Botanical part. I look upon it as a most valuable journal, capable 

 of being made more and more valuable as the different Societies in 

 Scotland are persuaded to communicate their better papers to it. 

 It is most inconvenient in Scotland, and also in England, to find 

 these local bodies issuing valuable papers in their local publications, 

 which are hardly accessible to those who are not members of them — 

 and that we cannot be of all these bodies. I hope that Mr. Clarke 

 will be able to give time to the "Scottish Naturalist," and extend 

 its value. My friend Dr. White and yourself have made it of very 

 much value, and Mr. White must try and emulate you as editor. I 



