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attended divine worship conducted in the English 

 language. 



Tuesday morning, April 23. As early as possible 

 in the morning yesterday I called on Lady Bentham, 

 the mother of my good friend who has taken so much 

 pains to aid me and her daughter, Madame Duchesnil ; 

 they live quite retired, and are occupied in directing 

 the education of the son of Madame Duchesnil, a fine 

 lad of about thirteen. . . . The ladies received me 

 with great cordiality. I prolonged my call to an hour, 

 and accepted an invitation to take tea with them this 

 evening. ... I went to the Garden, called upon M. 

 Dunal, 1 the best botanist here, who, having lived single 

 to the age of I should say fifty years, has found out 

 that it is not good to be alone, and has just taken a 

 wife. I did not stay very long, as I found when I 

 called that he was not in his study, but I suppose in 

 his drawing-room, and I could not be so cruel as to 

 keep him from the company of his beloved. 



I called next upon Delile, 2 but as he was not in, I 

 spent a long time in looking over the Garden, noticing 

 all the little details and arrangements that it would be 

 useful for me to know. On his return we spent the 

 remainder of the afternoon in looking over his plants 

 collected in America. I dined with him at six o'clock, 

 and spent nearly all the evening. . . . They have not 

 water enough, however, to supply the Botanic Garden 

 sufficiently, which has a very barren soil, and in this 

 dry climate, where it seldom rains from this time till 



1 Michel Felix Dunal, 1789-1856 ; professor of botany at Montpel- 

 lier. " One of the earliest friends of A. P. De Candolle. Author of 

 several important monographs " [A. G.]. 



2 Alire Raffeneau Delile, 1778-1850; director of the Garden of 

 Agriculture established at Cairo. Later he succeeded De Candolle in 

 the Botanic Garden, Montpellier. A celebrated botanist. 



