382 SECOND JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1851, 
to the Duchesse de la Valliere. And here to meet him 
came old Michaux ! the younger, then eighty-one, who 
had walked from his home (fifteen leagues), for the 
pleasure of seeing Dr. Gray. And it was at Dr. 
Gray’s request that both Michaux and Jussieu sat for 
their daguerreotypes for him, the only satisfactory 
likenesses of either. Mr. Francois Delessert? ex- 
tended pleasant hospitalities, and Mr. Webb was very 
kind and cordial. 
It was during the time of the Republic, Louis Na- 
poleon, p resident, and there were some grand fétes in 
May, in honor of the Republic, at which the officers 
of the government were conspicuously absent. 
Dr. Gray returned to Kew in June to continue his 
work, broken only by some days in London. 
TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
Paris, April 30, 1851. 
Dear BentHoam, —I cannot give your message to 
Weddell, for he is on his way to the Peruvian cin- 
chona forests, to remain a year, — I suppose on a com- 
mission from the manufacturers of quinine. Jussieu 
still suffers with some affection of the stomach, but 
is much better than last winter. Decaisne is quite 
well, but is occupied with the Culture, and is little in 
the herbarium, where Spach, Tulasne,? Naudin,* and 
Trécul ° are in charge, under Brongniart and Jussieu. 
1 Frangois André Michanx, 1770-1856; son of André Michaux, 
who traveled in North America from 1785 to 1796. Wrote Forest 
ica. 
Frangois — brother of Benjamin. Died 1868. Liberal 
patron of arts and sciences. 
$ Louis René Tulasne, 1815; aid liste at the M a 
4 "ans Nandin; now director of the Jardin d’Acelimitation at 
Antibe 
Ss Revoiie Trécul, Paris ; writer on Vegetable Histology. 
