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
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 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3566.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10