720 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1881, 



Boissier had written to us to come down to Valeyres, 

 but he had expected us earlier. As he was to be off 

 in less than a week, and Mrs. Gray well used up, on 

 reaching Geneva, we declined, and begged- him to 

 come to Geneva, which he did on Monday, and stayed 

 well into Tuesday. He took me to his herbarium, 

 which is large and well kept, and I looked up some 

 old things of Lagasca's, which I could find no trace 

 of at Madrid. Barbey I regretted not to see. He 

 goes with his father-in-law to the Balearic Isles, 

 goes, indeed, because he is concerned for Boissier's 

 health, and well he may be. 



Argovian Miiller I saw something of ; busy and 

 happy in the care of the garden, the Delessert herba- 

 rium, and the professorship in the new university, 

 built up with the late Duke of Brunswick's money. 

 The death of his only son was a great blow to him ; 

 but he seems cheerful and is very busy. De Can- 

 dolle is working over Cultivated Plants and their 

 origin. . . . 



I see I must go home this autumn, and, indeed, 

 that seems best on almost all accounts. So I should 

 be at Kew soon, and once there I must set myself to 

 work most diligently, and make the most of what 

 time remains. 



I hear nothing as yet of Bentham. I hope he is 

 going on well, and the Gramineae nearly finished, and 

 that he will next take up Liliacese. . . . 



Aix LA CHAPELLE, June 8, 1881. 



. . . Then we took train on the road down the Mo- 

 selle (which we had followed from Metz). From 

 Treves halfway down to Coblentz the country had a 



