Autograph letter signed.
by BABINGTON, CHARLES CARDALE (1808-1895). Botanist and archaeologist.:
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge, 17th July 1871. 3-sides 8vo, laid down by reverse of conjugate leaf to part of an album page. To "Dear Sir", he writes thanking the recipient for information that will lead to improvements to a new edition of his manual [ Manual of British Botany, the 7th edition corrected throughout published in 1874?] - "....whorls of 5 is the certainly regular form in Erythraea [?] and I did not know that there was any variation. It is not uncommon to find 'accidental' changes of this kind and thus we see the necessity of always looking at several flowers of plants before deciding that we have the true number of the parts in the speciman before us....." etc.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
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- Title
- Autograph letter signed.
- Author
- BABINGTON, CHARLES CARDALE (1808-1895). Botanist and archaeologist.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Cambridge, 17th July 1871.
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
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