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also have a day with Brown, if I can get it at his own 

 house. I hope very nearly to finish this next week, if 

 life and health are continued. . . . 



February 12, 1839. - - 1 am fearful even another 

 day will not see the end of Lambert's collection, and 

 I suspect a week is none too little for the British 

 Museum. Lady Charlotte Bury came into Lam- 

 bert's and had a long chat with him ; such a pair 

 of originals ! She is to dine with Lambert on Sun- 

 day, but stipulated early, as she always made it a point 

 to read prayers to her servants on Sunday evening ! 



February 13, Wednesday evening, or rather one 

 o'clock, Thursday. Rose and breakfasted at eight, 

 which is become my regidar practice ; started for 

 Lambert's at ten, where I worked incessantly till five 

 P. M. ; returned to my room ; dressed ; went to the 

 City, where I dined, and about eight o'clock arrived at 

 Ward's, whose microscopical party this evening was 

 given chiefly on my account. Some eight or more 

 splendid microscopes were in active use when I ar- 

 rived ; and the greater portion of the chief microscopic 

 people were there. I was introduced to Stokes, Solly, 

 Powel, Bowerbank. 1 . . . Also Mr. Quekett, whom 

 I knew before, and several amateurs, such as Boott, 

 Bennett, Bentham, Don, were present. It was a feast 

 to me, you may be sure, and I acquired some useful 

 knowledge, and saw some strange things : the infuso- 

 ria in flint ; queer fossil woods, which are all the rage 

 here, and are extremely curious ; fibrocellular tissue, 

 the most beautiful thing you can imagine. One of 

 the best of the microscopists, Mr. Bowerbank, gave me 

 one or two curious microscopical objects, which he had 



1 James Scott Bowerbank, 1797-1877. Wrote on Sponges and the 

 Fossil Fruits of the London Clay. 



