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the Queen, being present when he went to Frog- 
more, conversed with Dr. G. on the subject of his 
studies. He found the herbarium very much da- 
maged, and recommended Her Majesty to have it 
looked over by some intelligent person, mentioning 
Mr. Dryander and Sir James Smith, as either of 
them capable of advising some method of preserv- 
ing what remained. The name of the latter was 
not unknown to the Queen; he had some time be- 
fore presented her, through the kindness of the 
Hon. Mrs, Barrington, with a copy of his Colour- 
ed Figures of Rare Plants, which both Their Majes- 
ties were pleased enough with to desire to become 
purchasers of three copies besides; and in one of 
Her Majesty’s familiar visits to the late Viscountess 
Cremorne, the Queen carried her a copy as a pre- 
sent. 
Lady Cremorne, perceiving with agreeable sur- 
prise that the author of this new work was a person 
she had honoured with her friendship so far as to 
have fixed on him as an acquaintance and compa- 
nion for an only and beloved son, the consequence 
of the rencontre was, that when Dr. Goodenough 
gave the above-mentioned hint to Her Majesty, 
she instantly fixed upon him, for the purpose not 
merely of arranging Lightfoot’s herbarium, but of 
conversing with herself and the Princesses on the 
elements of botany and zoology. These visits were 
at all times remembered by him with considerable 
pleasure; and he never spoke without veneration of 
the character of the Queen, her care to afford her 
daughters every opportunity of acquiring informa- 
