A TRIP WITH LOED LINDLEY 435 



I have no notes of my trip with Sir Joseph in 1855, but 

 I have a lively recollection of its main incidents. The cholera 

 was raging and we were fumigated on the frontier of Italy on 

 the Stelvio Pass. Milan was stinking with Chloride of lime ; 

 Venice was deserted, and the Scientific meeting at Vienna 

 which Sir Jos. was to attend was put off. We saw the 

 caves at Laibach and went to Breslau to see Goppert's 

 celebrated collection of Amber containing seeds, insects, &c., 

 which Hooker was very desirous of seeing. We wound up 

 our trip by staying a week inTParis to see the Great Exhibition 

 there and got home penniless. 



Our trip cost us 50 apiece ; and we often saved hotel 

 bills by travelling at night when passing through unin- 

 teresting country. I could talk French and German well 

 then I wish I could now ! Hooker had introductions to 

 Scientific men, but I cannot recall their names Humboldt 

 and Koch, I think, at Berlin ; a Botanist at Vienna, Goppert 

 at Breslau, and several in Paris. I think there was some 

 one in Dresden and another in Munich ; and we went and 

 spent a night with a friend at a house on a lovely lake not 

 far from Munich, but I forget the name of the Man and the 

 place. Von Martius may have been the man, but I am not 

 by any means sure. 



I wish I could help you further. We met Henslow and, 

 I think, a daughter of his when in Paris, and stayed at the 

 same Hotel. 



