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fectly suit Mrs. Church and yourself if we came to 

 you on Saturday (28th) for a few days. Later would 

 serve us, if you prefer. . . . 



After that I hope we can get settled at Kew, and 

 do some work, for which I have little enough time 

 left. 



As to Exeter meeting of British Association, I am 

 on the whole glad enough to keep away, especially 

 from Darwinian discussions, in which I desire not to 

 be at all " mixed up ' with the prevailing and pecul- 

 iarly English materialistic, positivic line of thought, 

 with which I have no sympathy, while in natural his- 

 tory I am a sort of Darwinian. 



TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 

 KEW, [CHAKLTON HOUSE], September 20, 1869. 



The skies were propitious to us in Switzerland, and 

 the only very warm day was the one which we passed, 

 very pleasantly indeed, with Godet at Neufchatel. 

 Thence we went to Paris, stopping at Dijon en 

 route. . . . 



Oliver and Baker are here steadily at work. Dr. 

 Masters 1 drops in now and then. Dr. Hooker, after 

 some respite, was at home. Dr. Thomson returned 

 last week ; and now Bentham is here also, fresh from 

 the Continent. 



At British Museum I find Dr. Carruthers 2 and 

 the new assistant, Dr. Trimen. Mr. Bennett still, I 

 think, away on his holiday. Botanical and other 

 news I have none. I send you this mere apology for 

 a letter, in the hope of getting something from you ; 



1 Maxwell T. Masters ; editor of Gardener's Chronicle ; author of 

 Vegetable Teratology. 



2 William Carruthers ; botanist of the British Museum, London. 



