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inn. Nevertheless we enjoyed. We had some crackers 

 and cheese and wine and " Tom and Jerry " ad libitum, 

 for when we had all our crackers eaten we ate or 

 rather we cracked jokes.. It was not so indigestible, 

 besides we made up in fluid what we were short of in 

 food. After dark we broke the meeting and parted. 

 Our artist left me some specimens of his art in the 

 shape of 200 dollars. I have always been sorry since 

 not to have seen him again, and 



" If lie is dead, I hope lie is gone to heaven Artistically 

 As I hope when I die to go thither horticulturally." 



There is pleasure in meeting genial men with whom 

 you can exchange your ideas without "bruising any one's 

 feelings, like our shrew ! above had done to me about 

 bread. 



Here a Retrospective thought strikes my mind that 

 somewhere in my lucubrations I have spoken of Crypto- 

 gamy and Cryptogamic studies, but that I have not 

 given the definitions of my ideas in reference to their 

 doiible meaning. Cryptogamia ! indeed ! they were (Hid- 

 den). I have meant to say that by Cryptogamic studies 

 I wanted to study plants deprived of sexual organs, 

 not visible to the naked eye ; and also the study of the 

 " human heart" Study a thousand times more diffi- 

 cult than to study and analyze the most microscopic, 

 impalpable, embryonic " Mucidinse " (Meldew family) 



