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from Hooker. . . . How capitally he seems to have succeeded Letter 28 

 in all his enterprises ! You must be very busy now. I 

 happened to be thinking the other day over the Gamlingay 

 trip to the Lilies of the Valley: l ah, those were delightful days 

 when one had no such organ as a stomach, only a mouth and 

 the masticating appurtenances. I am very much surprised 

 at what you say, that men are beginning to work in earnest 

 [at] Botany. What a loss it will be for Natural History that 

 you have ceased to reside all the year in Cambridge ! 



To J. F. Royle.* Letter 2g 



Down, Sept. 1st [184- ?]. 

 I return you with very many thanks your valuable work. 

 I am sure I have not lost any slip or disarranged the loose 

 numbers. I have been interested by looking through the 

 volumes, though I have not found quite so much as I had 

 thought possible about the varieties of the Indian domestic 

 animals and plants, and the attempts at introduction have 

 been too recent for the effects (if any) of climate to have been 

 developed. I have, however, been astonished and delighted 

 at the evidence of the energetic attempts to do good by such 

 numbers of people, and most of them evidently not personally 

 interested in the result. Long may our rule flourish in India. 

 I declare all the labour shown in these transactions is enough 

 by itself to make one proud of one's countrymen. 



To Hugh Strickland. Letter 30 



The first paragraph of this letter is published in the Life and 

 Letters, I., p. 372, as part of a series of letters to Strickland, beginning 

 at p. 365, where a biographical note by Professor Newton is also given. 

 Professor Newton wrote : "In 1841 he brought the subject of Natural 

 History Nomenclature before the British Association, and prepared the 



1 The Lily of the Valley {Convallaria majalis) is recorded from 

 Gamlingay by Professor Babington in his Flora of Cambridgeshire 

 p. 234. (London, i860.) 



2 John Forbes Royle (1800-58) was originally a surgeon in the 

 H.E.I.C. Medical Service, and was for some years Curator at Saharunpur. 

 From 1837-56 he was Professor of Materia Medica at King's College, 

 London. He wrote principally on economic and Indian botany. One 

 of his chief works was Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of 

 the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains and of the Flora 

 of Cashmere. (London, 1839.) 



