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A few days later he had the pleasure of meeting 

 both the great men simultaneously at the Linnaean Club 

 dinner. 



"November 6th. The crown of one's ambition (le com- 

 ble de mes desirs scientifiques). Sat at the Linnaean Club 

 on the right-hand of the President, backed on the other 

 side by the kindness of Mr. Yarrell, who accosted me in 

 the most friendly manner. Bell was himself intensified ; 

 a model of urbanity, combined with a self-reliant, composed 

 presence as befits the Linnaean President of twenty years 

 sitting at the head of the Club Thence to the Lin- 

 naean with Mr. Bell, where I heard Mr. Gosse speak on the 

 Water Spider, &c." 



A permanent result of the friendship thus formed with 

 Mr. Bell was his election to the Fellowship of the Linnaean 

 Society thus (in anticipation) referred to in his Journal : 



" November loth. Called at 7, New Broad-street : not 

 long waiting ; Mr. James Salter received me, and we sat 

 in famous chat for half-an-hour ; and then I had the great 

 pleasure of seeing Mr. Bell too, more kind than ever, and 

 he would soon spoil me. Received my little notes in a 

 most nattering manner, and will propose for the Linnaean 

 next time. FuturusF.L.S. What a weight of responsibility; 

 what a check upon rash opinion or printing loosely ! " 



On the same day "Yarrell gave me more than an hour, 

 and promised me the most valuable use of his experience. 

 The more I see him the more I like him/' He was able 

 to see a good deal of the great ornithologist more of the 

 man, indeed, than of his book, which was in such request 

 at the British Museum Library that, out of three occasions 

 on which he asked for it there, it was only once to be had. 



His list of rare plants found at Tunbridge Wells was 

 now completed and given to the " Phytologist." For the 

 better determination of the varieties of Ferns collected in 

 that neighbourhood, he had already forwarded a number of 

 them during the summer to Mr. Newman, a circumstance 

 which led to his now making acquaintance with that most 

 versatile of naturalists, then editor of the " Zoologist," but 

 best known perhaps at the present day through his books 

 on British Ferns, Butterflies, and Moths, and, to some 



