KT. 58.] TO GENERAL HOWLAND. 593 
and later I may have more to say. Can I be of any 
use to you here ? 
Remember me kindly to Dr. Miiller,! to whom best 
thanks for all the friendly services which he has ren- 
dered me. 
Our united kind regards to Madame De Candolle, 
and to your son (from whom [ still expect a photo- 
graph), and my wife’s to yourself. We have the 
most pleasant recollections of our brief visit to 
Geneva. 
Believe me ever your devoted Asa GRAY. 
TO GENERAL HOWLAND. 
Kew, October 3, 1869. 
T don’t know when you would get a response to your 
welcome letter of August 22, ee reached us here 
in due course, so long as things went on in the ordi- 
nary way, — I working at botany as much as possible, 
but presiding here over a considerable household, 
some sight-seeing and much intermittent visiting. 
But now that I am all alone, and my wife with the 
rest of them girareing over the north of England, 
sober reflection has its hour, and I remember the 
friends that are far away, perhaps on the shores of 
Italian lakes, and long to know how they get on and 
what they are about. To attain which knowledge and 
put myself en rapport I should first, I know, give 
you some account of ourselves and our doings. 
But where to begin? I think we wrote you from 
Paris. We had three weeks there, I mostly at the 
Jardin des Plantes till near dinner-time. . . . 
For ourselves, after cool weather in Paris we came 
1 Johannes Miiller (Argoviensis); late director of the Botanic 
Garden at Geneva. Has written largely on Lichens. 
