Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man, formerly known as (Charles) Cardale Babington NPG x44843

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Oliver Green

Babington studied botany at St John's College, Cambridge. After receiving his MA in 1833, he remained at Cambridge; with no teaching post he was able to devote all of his efforts to his research. By the 1840s, he had become the acknowledged leader of taxonomic research on British higher plants. His Manual of British Botany (1843), which had taken nine years to prepare, was extremely influential and ran into many editions. He was made Professor of Botany at Cambridge in 1861, and remained in this... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.