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Well-close Square, according to promise, to name some 

 plants for him, but Dr. Valentine, 1 a most ingenious 

 vegetable anatomist and microscopist, being in town 

 (had previously met him at Lindley's), Mr. Ward had 

 foregone his own advantage and invited Valentine and 

 Quekett to meet me with their microscopes, so that 

 the evening was very instructive to me, which I had 

 not anticipated. Mr. Ward seems to have taken a 

 fancy to me, for I can hardly imagine that he takes 

 so much pains to oblige every one, absorbed as he is 

 also in medical practice. He presented me with a 

 beautiful botanical digger of fine polished steel, with a 

 leathern sheath, which I suspect he has had made on 

 purpose for me ; though I don't know why he should 

 have thought of it. Mrs. Ward was inquiring about 

 the Abbotts and their works, one of which she had, 

 which makes her wish for more. I am often asked 

 about Mr. Abbott, whose works seem much more 

 generally known here than those of any other Ameri- 

 can religious author. I must find some for Mrs. 

 Ward. 



Sunday evening, March 3. I went this morning to 

 hear, perhaps for the last time, Baptist Noel. The 

 sermon was from the last three verses of the same 

 psalm (Ps. ciii.) from which he has preached on the 

 former occasions when I have heard him in his own 

 church ; and truly a good sermon it was. I have 

 told you that the chapel is a large one. Yet it is 

 so well filled that I have always had some difficulty 

 in getting a seat, and to-day I actually stood near the 

 pulpit during the whole service and sermon. But it 



1 William Valentine, a very promising young botanist, who wrote 

 valuable papers on the structure of mosses. Went early to Tasmania) 

 where he died. 



