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CHAPTER VII. 
TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. 
1868-1880. 
Dr. Gray made his fifth journey to Europe in the 
fall of 1868. He landed in September, and went at 
once to Kew, where he remained most of the time at 
work in the herbarium until November. He made a 
short round of visits, first to Mr. Church, who was 
then rector of Whatley, a village of Somersetshire, 
where, with Mrs. Gray, he enjoyed to the full his stay 
in one of the loveliest parts of rural England. They 
went also to Down to pay a visit to Darwin, and 
with them went Dr. and Mrs. Hooker, with their two 
eldest children, and Professor Tyndall. Those were 
days never to be forgotten. In November, Dr. and 
Mrs. Gray joined some family friends in Paris, with 
whom they went to Egypt and passed the winter on 
. the Nile, taking the longest vacation, Dr. Gray said, 
he had ever enjoyed. Upon their return they passed 
through Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, where old 
botanical acquaintances were renewed, and some per- 
Sons seen whom he had known only by correspond- 
ence. In England he again worked at Kew, and 
repeated the visits at Whatley and Down, sailing for 
America, November 9, 1869. 
