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Darwin Correspondence Project

From C. C. Babington   22 May 1862

Cambridge

22. May. 1862

Dear Darwin

I ought to have written sooner to thank you for a copy of your exceedingly interesting and valuable book upon Orchids.1

It is highly satisfactory in all respects. The results are most curious and the skill shown in discovering them equally so.

Yours very truly | Charles C. Babington—

Footnotes

Babington’s name is on the presentation list CD drew up for Orchids (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix IV).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.

Summary

Thanks for copy of Orchids.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3566
From
Charles Cardale Babington
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Cambridge
Source of text
DAR 160.1: 3
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3566,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3566.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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