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official order which somewhat astounded his cabinet 

 officers. ' Why, Mr. President,' they said, ' you can't 

 do that.' ' Can't do it ? ' replied General Jackson ; 

 ' Don't you see that I have done it ? ' And so we 

 internationals have come and done it. I am the un- 

 worthy spokesman of such a numerous and such # 

 distinguished array of scientific foreigners as have 

 never been assembled before. Next year, if you will, 

 you shall have as many more. When you too are 

 ready to cross the Channel or the North Sea, we shall 

 compose only a larger scientific brotherhood. And 

 when you cross again the Atlantic, the brotherhood of 

 science will be the more increased, and its usefulness 

 in proportion. 



" In behalf of your foreign guests, I heartily second 

 the motion." 



From Manchester Dr. Gray went to Failand, to his 

 friend Sir Edward Fry; then followed a visit to 

 Miss North, in Gloucestershire, where he met, among 

 others, Mr. and Mrs. Elwes, 1 and drove one day to 

 Tortworth to lunch with Lord and Lady Ducie ; then 

 to Kew. A few days there with his kind friends, Dr. 

 and Mrs. Oliver, a farewell visit to his old friend, Miss 

 Sullivan, at Broom House, to the Camp to say good- 

 by to the Hookers, and finally to Liverpool to sail in 

 the Pavonia, October 7. Just six months, as Dr. Gray 

 said, of wonderful enjoyment and success ; everything 

 had gone as it should, there were no mishaps, the 

 days had run on as each had been planned, and he 

 came home in wonderful vigor and spirits. 



1 Henry John Elwes, author of the sumptuous monograph of the 

 genus Lilium. 



