1845] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 443 



What sort of class have you got, and how do you get on at 

 Liverpool ? One hard day's work would shew you most of the 

 Teesdale plants. Say that we meet at Barnard Castle on Monday 

 forenoon, the 23rd inst., and get up the valley that evening, spend 

 Tuesday there, and get to York on the Wednesday. I throw this 

 out as a hint for you to consider. 



St. John's College, Cahbridob, March 11, 1845. 



Dear Balfour, — You will probably have received a letter from 

 our Vice-Chancellor concerning a new Curator for our Garden here. 

 .... The place for the new Garden is at present only a bare field, 

 and the new Curator will have to work out the details of a rough 

 plan by himself, as Henslow is non-resident. We therefore want 

 ■a good practical man, Avho has a considerable acquaintance with 

 science. It seems to me to be a fine opening for a young and active 



man, where he may distinguish himself and obtain reputation 



I have been very much occupied of late with " Ray's Letters and 

 Itineraries " for the Ray Society, determining the modern names 



-of the plants — Believe me, yours very truly, Charles C. 



Babington. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, July 5, 1845. 



Dear Balfour, — You have set me rather a troublesome job, but 

 I have done my best to name the specimens. Do not however 

 •commit me to the names now given, as it is difficult to determine 



from crushed specimens and young shoots I find that Borrer 



declines Clova, and so I think that I shall not go north this year. 

 I propose joining Lingwood in Pembrokeshire next month for a few 

 weeks. It is a district but little known botanically, and so I may 

 perhaps do some good work there at small pecuniary outlay, — for 

 you must know that I am rather poor this year, and want to save 

 for Norway next season. Be sure that you make arrangements so 

 that you may be able to start very early for Norway next year, that 

 we may have the whole season before us. I should like to get very 

 far north when we are about it. An intimate friend of mine, who 

 is a good naturalist, and most gentlemanly person, named Wollaston 

 (Secretary to the Nat. Hist. Section, at the late Meeting at which we 

 .greatly missed you), wishes to go, and I have said that I have no 

 doubt that he can join us. He will be an acquisition to a small 

 ■select party such as ours must be. I enclose one of our Association 

 tickets for you to see. The building you may remember is the 

 new Fitzwilliam Museum. The Meeting* has gone off beautifully 

 altogether, nothwithstanding a squabble between Sedgwick and 



, in which of course the former was in the right. — Yours truly, 



"Charles C. Babington. 



* British Association. 



