226 Alexander Goodman More. [i869< 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



A CANDIDATURE. 



[1869.1 



His only preserved letter of this year's date is one to Dr. 

 Carte, written at Holyhead, as he was starting for his sum- 

 mer holiday, and contains a reference to the big seal, of 

 which a photograph had been taken. 



September jrd , 1869. 



DEAR DR. CARTE, I was very sorry to leave without shaking- 

 hands and receiving your last instructions ; but the truth is that I had 

 such a sharp attack of " English " (or Irish) cholera that I had to lie 

 up for three days, and I have been obliged to rest here for the night 

 as I am quite weak. I hope that you will kindly write me a few lines 



to , Tunbridge Wells. I trust that will carefully lock up 



my dredgings, as I do not wish anyone to examine them until I have 

 time to go through them more carefully myself. I know there are 

 some fine things among them. I am going to spend a few days at 

 Llanberis with my friend Professor Babington, then on to Tunbridge 

 Wells, and after that to Switzerland. Have you got Mr. (Professor) 

 King's paper, in quarto, on the Eozoon ? because he wished me to try 

 and get him some specimens, and I cannot do it so well unless I have a 



copy or two of his larger paper ; has mislaid mine and his own 



copy, and if you could spare yours I think it might help me. The pho- 

 tographer had rubbed out the figures in one of the photographs, and 

 that is certainly the best figure of the seal. If you like me to make use 

 of a few copies for the museum, I am sure 1 could do some business for 

 you in Switzerland and Italy, where they never see the Halichserus. 



He was detained longer in England than he had ex- 

 pected, and now made his latest addition to the English 

 flora, that of Callitriche obtusangula. Previously known 

 only as a French plant, this " water-starwort," like the 

 grass Festuca ambigua, owed its first recognition as a 

 "species" to the botanist Le Gal], who described it in his 

 "Flore deMorbihan " (1852). Having now the opportunity 



