380 SECOND JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1851, 
little Botanic Garden in an old greenhouse. The 
days were crowded with interesting sight-seeing and 
in meeting agreeable people. 
From Oxford, Dr. Gray went to Cambridge, where 
he met again a traveling acquaintance made on the 
passage from Rotterdam, Dr. Thompson, then Greek 
tutor, later Master of Trinity, who was very kind in 
doing the honors of Trinity, King’s Chapel, ete. At 
his rooms, Dr. Gray met Professor Challis and other 
Cambridge men. The grounds about the colleges were 
then at their greatest beauty, the banks of the Cam 
yellow with primroses, the whole setting off the beauti- 
ful bridges and stately buildings. Another traveling 
acquaintance met in the street, recalling an experience 
on the Furea, asked Dr. Gray to dine with him at 
Caius College, saying his name was Mackenzie. He 
was Bishop Mackenzie, who died in south Africa. 
On returning to Kew, Dr. Gray found Dr. Joseph 
Hooker, just back from his journey to the Himalayas 
and Thibet. Dr. Thompson ! was also there, just home 
from India, where he had been imprisoned with Lady 
Sale and others, twenty of them in one small room, 
during the trouble in Afghanistan. And one day 
came an invitation to lunch from the Hookers’, * to 
meet Mr. Darwin, who is coming to meet Dr. Hooker ; 
is distinguished as a naturalist.” “ Mr. Darwin was 
a lively, agreeable person” [Mrs. Gray’s journal]. 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
CUMBERLAND Prace, Kew, April 14, 1851. 
For myself I am ad that I am perfectly recovered 
from the effects of my accident, and am as active as 
1 Thomas Thompson, 1817-1878 ; son of the distinguished chemist 
of Glasgow ; explorer and traveler in India; director of the Calcutta 
Botanic Garden. 
