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Museum, Dr. Wallich,! Mr. Miers and many others. 
There was some social visiting in London and the 
neighborhood. Mr. Abbott, Lawrence was then Amer- 
ican minister in London, and he and Mrs. Lawrence 
were very kind and attentive, giving him a chance to 
see at an evening reception some of the great men of 
the London world: the Duke of Wellington, Lady 
Morgan, Whewell the Master of Trinity, Lord Bough- 
ton, Lord Gough, and many others 
It was the year of the first great World’s Exhibition, 
and the building was then considered very wonderful. 
Through the kindness of Professor Lindley he was 
enabled to see it before it was completed. 
There was a very charming visit to Oxford in 
March, where Dr. Gray made most delightful ac- 
quaintances. He there first met Dean Church, then 
a fellow of Oriel, who had him to dine. He also 
dined with Mr. Congreve? at Wadham; met Maske- 
leyne, who showed him “some fine talbotypes, which 
are a sort of daguerreotype on paper, and have a 
beautiful effect for landscapes and buildings.” Break- 
fasted with Mr. Burgon and Mr. Church, at Oriel, in 
Dr. Pusey’s old rooms, and met Mr. Burgon again at 
dinner, when dining in the ‘Common Room,” at a 
dinner given him by Mr. Church, and also Buckle 
and Sclater. Dr. Jacobson, then Regius professor of 
divinity, afterwards Bishop of Chester, and Mrs, 
Jacobson, were very kind. Dr. Daubeny was then 
professor of botany at Oxford, and there were some 
plants to look at in the small herbarium kept in the 
1 Nathaniel > 1789-1854, a Dane by birth; a distinguished 
East Indian botanis 
2 Richard eal fellow and tutor of Wadham. Among his 
Parl publications is The Translation of the Catechism of Positive Re- 
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