718 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1881, 



Madame De Candolle and yourself ; and I am always 

 most sincerely yours, ASA GRAY. 



TO J. D. HOOKER. 



LUGANO, May 8, 1881. 



. . . Mrs. Gray was able to see little of Padua, 

 beyond the Giotto frescoes and a look into San An- 

 tonio, the interior of which looked richer than ever. 

 I kept moving ; took a turn in the pleasant old Bo- 

 tanic Garden ; found Saccardo ; 1 saw two plants of 

 Amorphophallus Rivieri in blossom ; was taken up, by 

 Saccardo's aid, by Dr. Penzig 2 of Breslau, a gentle- 

 manly young fellow, and of good promise, who took 

 me in hand at the garden, university, etc. 



HOTEL ST. ROMAIN, PARIS, May 22, 1881. 

 If I write you a letter this evening, having nothing 

 else to do till bedtime, mind, you, who have every- 

 thing to do, are not bound to do more than to read it. 

 Mrs. Gray and Lady Hooker seem to manage corre- 

 spondence very well, and we may take it easy. But I 

 want to tell you what a pleasant and restful week we 

 had at Geneva. The De Candolles were delightful. 

 He comes in from Vallon every day at ten, and stays 

 till half past four, and I passed much of the time in 

 the herbarium, where I had various old dropped 

 stitches to take up, which I happily accomplished. 

 As to sociabilities, De Candolle had made a dinner 

 party for the very day we arrived (Friday), which I 

 had barely time to get to. I met there Edouard 



1 Pietro Andrea Saccardo ; professor at Padua. 



2 Otto Penzig, M. D. ; formerly assistant professor at Padua, now 

 professor at Genoa. 



