720 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1881, 



Boissier had written to us to come down to Valeyres, 

 but he had expected us earlier. As he was to be off 

 in less than a week, and Mrs. Gray well used up, on 

 reaching Geneva, we declined, and begged him to 

 come to Geneva, which he did on Monday, and stayed 

 well into Tuesday. He took me to his herbarium, 

 which is large and well kept, and I looked up some 

 old things of Lagasca's, which I coidd find no trace 

 of at Madrid. Barbey I regretted not to see. He 

 goes with his father-in-law to the Balearic Isles, 

 goes, indeed, because he is concerned for Boissier's 

 health, and well he may be. 



Argovian Miiller I saw something of ; busy and 

 happy in the care of the garden, the Delessert herba- 

 rium, and the professorship in the new university, 

 built up with the late Duke of Brunswick's money. 

 The death of his only son was a great blow to him ; 

 but he seems cheerful and is very busy. De Can- 

 dolle is working over Cultivated Plants and their 



origin. 



I see I must go home this autumn, and, indeed, 

 that seems best on almost all accounts. So I should 

 be at Kew soon, and once there I must set myself to 

 work most diligently, and make the most of what 

 time remains. 



I hear nothing as yet of Bentham. I hope he is 

 going on well, and the Graminese nearly finished, and 

 that he will next take up LiliaceaB. . . . 



Aix LA CHAPELLE, June 8, 1881. 



. . . Then we took train on the road down the Mo- 

 selle (which we had followed from Metz). From 

 Treves halfway down to Coblentz the country had a 



