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three sides, was crowded. This afternoon his assistant, 

 Mr. Garwood, preached, and there was room enough, 

 but we had a good sermon. This Mr. Garwood, you 

 may have seen by the papers, has lately been perse- 

 cuted a little by his bishop, for acting as secretary to 

 the London City Mission. Both he and Mr. Noel 

 are doing much good in raising the standard of piety 

 and active benevolence in the church they belong to. 

 I hope by next Sunday to inquire out Dr. Reed's 

 church. I have not been out this evening, but have 

 employed myself in copying out my poor notes on 

 the morning sermon, which I trust soon to forward to 

 you. 



Monday evening, January 28, 1839. I spent the 

 morning with Bentham, by appointment, with whom I 

 breakfasted and looked at Leguminosae until two P. M. ; 

 then joined Joe Hooker (took leave of Sir William 

 this morning, who has returned to Glasgow, via 

 Woburn) ; made calls, among others on Dr. Bostock, 

 who received me very politely ; we then dined to- 

 gether at a chop-house ; called on Dr. Boott, spent an 

 hour or two in his very pleasant family ; then attended 

 a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, in 

 which all that interested me was a paper by Professor 

 Robinson of New York, on some interesting matters 

 of ancient geography connected with his travels in 

 Asia Minor. The paper was sent to the Geographical 

 Society by a learned German geographer ; it excited 

 much interest. . . . 



London, January 24, 1839. I have so far been 

 seeing men and things chiefly, but have had one 

 or two botanical sittings with Bentham, who is a thor- 

 oughly kind and good fellow. He immediately had 

 all the remaining parcels of Douglas's California!! 



