734 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1882, 



Much has happened since then. We have lost dear 

 old Decaisne ; and now Darwin ! We hardly should * 

 have thought, twenty-five years ago, that he would 

 have made such an impression upon the great world, 

 as well as on the scientific world ! 



I do not know if you ever saw much of him. He 

 was a very charming man. 



Here we have lost, at a good age, both Longfellow 

 and Emerson. 



I have been anxious about Bentham, from whom 

 there were discouraging accounts ; but his last letters 

 are hopeful, and he is steadily at work. Let me 

 hope, and let me know, that you are quite well ; also 

 Madame De Candolle. 



TO J. D. HOOKER. 



CAMBRIDGE, September 17, 1882. 



... At Montreal we were guests of Dawson, who 

 wanted to return some hospitality we had afforded 

 him and his daughter. . . . Dawson has toiled for a 

 lifetime at Montreal, under many discouragements, 

 has accomplished a deal, and deserves great credit. 



. . . We had a pleasant time, and this fortnight in 

 Canada was my only vacation. I went to visit the 

 grave of Pursh, who died at forty-six. They have put 

 his bones in their pretty cemetery, and put a neat 

 stone over them. . . . 



Glad you are to send me scraps of one or more 

 species of Dyer. It should have been a tinctorial 

 genus. . . . 



TO B. W. CHURCH. 



October 8, 1882. 



It is probable that I have not responded by a line 

 to your letter of April 13, yet I think my wife has 



