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I made my inquiries in Marlborough Street, but 
was informed you were at Norwich. Since my re- 
turn I have felt myself very much indisposed, and 
in a very infirm state of health,—a nasty low fever, 
with a cough that alarms me, from some affection 
of the lungs. I have been down to Brighton, but 
bathed only in the tepid bath. I am now nursing 
myself at Oxford with asses milk, and gentle exer- 
cise on horseback ;—have some thoughts of trying 
what Bristol will do. 
I left Hawkins at Zante, from whence I had a 
very long and uncomfortable passage of twenty- 
four days to Otranto, in which I date the origin of 
my complaints, having in an excursion to Nicopolis, 
near Actium, caught a most severe cold,—the air of 
Prevesa is even by the Greeks deemed infamous: 
I travelled post from Ancona through the Tyrol, a 
beautiful Alpine country, very inviting to the bo- 
tanist. At Erlang I paid a visit to Schreber, who 
received me with great politeness. He has got 
a Monograph ready on the genus Carex, and told 
me he would adopt Dr. Goodenough’s names if he 
would favour him with a list of them. He is also 
ready with a Fasciculus of your Gramina. I pro- 
mised to send him Carew strigosa, and, if I could 
get it, Carex indica. 
I spent an hour with Hoffmann at Gottingen ; 
he has much improved the Gottingen garden; he 
was compiling a Synopsis of the German Crypto- 
gamia under the form of a Zaschen-buch, or what 
we call Pocket-book. I should like to see it ina 
more dignified form. 
