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TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 



. . . Arrived at Geneva by way of Villeneuve and the 

 Lake. De Candolle and Alplionse had returned only 

 three daj r s previous to my arrival. They received me 

 very cordially, and I went through the herbarium as 

 far as the " Prodromus " is prepared. 



From Geneva I went to Lausanne and Freiburg ; . . . 

 thence to Berne, where I made no stay ; thence to 

 Bale, to Schaffhausen, to Tubingen, where I spent the 

 morning with Mohl ; l reached Stuttgart toward even- 

 ing and Heidelberg the next morning. Frankfort in the 

 evening ; took the eilwagen the same night for Leipsic ; 

 saw Pb'ppig, 2 Schwagrichen, 3 etc. ; railroad to Dres- 

 den ; saw Reichenbach 4 for a few moments, as he went 

 into the country the same day ; visited the picture- 

 gallery, which deserves to be called the richest out of 

 Italy ; returned to Leipsic ; to Halle ; passed a day or 

 two with Schlechtendal ; 5 saw the Carices in the her- 

 barium of Schkuhr ; 6 Potsdam, Sans-Souci, the mar- 

 ble palace, the beautiful statue of the late queen of 

 Prussia by Ranch (the second and best one) ; and 

 thence to Berlin, where I remained nearly a month ; 

 saw the botanists, etc. 



1 Hugo von Mohl, 1805-1872. Born at Stuttgart. Professor of 

 botany at Tiibingeu. " Chief of the vegetable anatomists of this gen- 

 eration" [A. G.]. 



2 Eduard Friedrich Poppig, 1798-1868 ; professor of zoology at 

 Leipsic. Made collections of plants in Cuba, Chili, Peru, and on the 

 upper Amazon. 



3 Christian Friedrich Schwagrichen, 1775-1853 ; professor of 

 natural history at Leipsic. 



4 Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach, 1793-1879 ; professor of botany 

 at Dresden. A voluminous author, especially of illustrated works on 

 European plants. 



5 D. F. L. von Schlechtendal, 1784-1866. University of Halle. 

 Editor of the Linncea and Botanische Zeitung. 



6 Christian Schkuhr, 1741-1811. History of Carices, 1802. 



