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and Oregon plants sent down to his house, and has 

 supplied me as well as he could ; and a valuable par- 

 cel I shall have of them. . . . 



I have seen considerable of Brown, and like him 

 much better than I thought, although he is certainly 

 peculiar. The day we breakfasted with him we re- 

 mained until four P. M., and he offered to show anything 

 I wished at the British Museum. He showed us all 

 Bauer's drawings in his possession (I have since seen 

 Francis Bauer). He has much more general infor- 

 mation than I supposed ; is full of gossip, and has a 

 great deal of dry wit. 



He is growing old fast, and I suspect works very 

 little now, and I fear there is not very much more 

 work now to be expected of him. He knows every- 

 thing! . . . 



I spent a good part of yesterday with Bentharn, and 

 was to have met Hooker at the Geological Society in 

 the evening ; but botany prevailed and I stayed with 

 Bentham, and was a little sorry afterwards, as I 

 should have seen at the society Whewell ! Daubeny ! 

 Chantry the sculptor, etc. I have bought a colored 

 copy of Wallich's " Plants Asiaticse Rariores," 3 

 vols. fol., very fine, for 15 ; the publishing price 

 was <36, the present price by Henry Bohn, who 

 has bought up not only this but almost every other 

 expensive British work on natural history, is 26. It 

 is not yet come round from Edinburgh. I will soon 

 send it to you. ... I have seen the " Atakta Bo- 

 tanica " of Endlicher, where there is a plate of Un- 

 gnadia (not Ungnodia, as spelled in " Companion 

 to the Botanical Magazine "), but no letter-press as 

 yet. . . . 



January 30, Wednesday evening. . . . Yesterday 



