zr. 40.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 383 
Webb is well, and so is Gay, who is quite happy, liv- 
ing on his half pay, which the Republic has secured 
to him, with his rooms free of rent, and some savings 
from his former income. I have not seen Gaudichaud 
yet; but he has offered to come and show me his 
Sandwich Island collections, ete., of which he has 
issued some plates, in “ La Voyage de la Bonite,” but 
no text has appeared, and none seems likely to appear. 
I gave to Dr. Alexander the list and notes on Fend- 
ler’s Chagres plants. He will hand it to you when 
he sees you in London. 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
Paris, May 6, 1851. 
Robert Brown told me that Link would be suc- 
ceeded in his excellent and lucrative professorship 
either by Grisebach! or by our excellent frien 
Braun. Since I have been here, a young man from 
Berlin says that the choice has fallen on Braun, — to 
my great joy, for I love Braun very much. I have 
given Lowell, who leaves Paris to-day, and will be 
in Germany in June and July, a letter to Braun, ad- 
dressed to Giessen or Berlin. 
Prince Paul’s sensitive branches of Mimosa eatch- 
ing unwary travelers is rich! 
TO ——. 
Wednesday morning, June 11. 
Settled down to usual Kew routine; glad enough 
to get back to quiet and superlative neatness ; to less 
1 Heinrich Rudolph August Grisebach, 1813-1879. Hannover and 
Gittingen. Professor of botany in the university. ‘“ A prominent and 
voluminous systematic botanist. His most important work a treatise 
on the Vegetation of the Earth ” [A. G.]. 
