CHAPTER VII. 



TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. 



1868-1880. 



DR. GRAY made his fourth journey to Europe in the 

 fall of 1868. He landed in September, and went at 

 once to Kew, where he remained most of the time at 

 work in the herbarium until November. He made a 

 short round of visits, first to Mr. Church, who was 

 then rector of Whatley, a village of Somersetshire, 

 where, with Mrs. Gray, he enjoyed to the full his stay 

 in one of the loveliest parts of rural England. They 

 went also to Down to pay a visit to Darwin, and 

 with them went Dr. and Mrs. Hooker, with their two 

 eldest children, and Professor Tyndall. Those were 

 days never to be forgotten. In November, Dr. and 

 Mrs. Gray joined some family friends in Paris, with 

 whom they went to Egypt and passed the winter on 

 the Nile, taking the longest vacation, Dr. Gray said, 

 he had ever enjoyed. Upon their return they passed 

 through Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, where old 

 botanical acquaintances were renewed, and some per- 

 sons seen whom he had known only by correspond- 

 ence. In England he again worked at Kew, and 

 repeated the visits at Whatley and Down, sailing for 

 America, November 9, 1869. 



