592 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1869, 
fectly suit Mrs. Church and yourself if we came to 
you on Saturday (28th) for afewdays. Later would 
serve us, if you prefer. . . 
After that I hope we can get settled at Kew, and 
do some work, for which I have little enough time 
left. 
As to Exeter meeting of British Association, I am 
on the whole glad enough to keep away, especially 
from Darwinian discussions, in which I desire not to 
be at all “ mixed up” with the prevailing and pecul- 
iarly English materialistic, positivie line of thought, 
with which I have no sympathy, while in natural his- 
tory I am a sort of Darwinian. 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
Kew, [Caaruron House], September 20, 1869. 
The skies were propitious to us in Switzerland, and 
the only very warm day was the one which we passed, 
very pleasantly indeed, with Godet at Neufchatel. 
Thence we went to Paris, stopping at Dijon en 
route. . 
Oliver snd Baker are here steadily at work. Dr. 
Masters! drops in now and then. Dr. Hooker, after 
some respite, was at home. Dr. Thomson returned 
last week ; and now Bentham is here also, fresh from 
the Continent. 
At British Museum I find Dr. Carruthers? and 
the new assistant, Dr. Trimen. Mr. Bennett still, I 
think, away on his holiday. Botanical and other 
news I have none. I send you this mere apology for 
a letter, in the hope of getting something from you; 
1 Maxwell T. Masters; editor of Gardener’s Chronicle; author of 
pete Teratology. 
2 William Carruthers ; botanist of the British Museum, London. 
