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looks well, though too embonpoint, and dresses like 

 a young lady, with short sleeves. She is of a high 

 family, a sister of the present Duke of Argyll, and is 

 certainly talented ; she is said to be quite poor. Her 

 daughters are married into families of rank, except 

 one (Miss Bury) who was with her mother at Lam- 

 bert's, whom Sir William Hooker thought remarkably 

 handsome, but I did not. As I have not a high respect 

 for Lady Bury's character I did not throw myself into 

 her circle, and saw almost nothing of her the whole 

 evening. We came away early. 



Saturday evening. I paid a visit, this morning, 

 in company with Joe Hooker, to the Zoological Gar- 

 dens in Regent's Park, where we saw all kinds of four- 

 footed beasts, and fowl, and creeping things. There 

 are four giraffes, but none quite so large as those we 

 saw in New York. There were a very fine orang- 

 outang, very gentle and amiable, a curious spider- 

 monkey, and other curious animals in great plenty. 

 The finest residences I have seen in London are those 

 which look upon Regent's Park. Returning, we called 

 upon Lambert, Saturday being a kind of public day 

 with him, and there met that Nestor of botanists, 

 Mr. Menzies, 1 whom I found a most pleasant and 

 kind-hearted old man; he invited me very earnestly 

 to come down and see him, which I will try to do 

 some day. Meanwhile I expect to meet him on Tues- 

 day at Mr. Ward's. 



We just had time to go down into the City to call 011 

 Mr. Putnam (publisher) and to learn that copies of 

 the "Flora" had arrived, but were not yet cleared 



1 Archibald Menzies, 1754-1842; the botanist who accompanied 

 Vancouver in his voyage to the west coasts of North and South 

 America. His collections are in the Edinburgh and Kew Herbariums. 



