zr. 58.] TO R. W. CHURCH. 595 
The winter Dr. Gray spent in Egypt, in 1869, he 
raised a full beard, which so changed his appearance 
that, though eyes and voice were there, his oldest 
friends did not know him on his return, and he had 
great glee in imposing himself on his old friend Dr. 
Torrey, when he went to the station to meet him in 
Boston, as a persistent hack-driver. Even when he 
declared himself, Dr. Torrey would scarcely believe 
him; he and Professor Henry always maintained a 
man had no lawful right so to change his outward 
appearance after middle age. 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
Kew, October 6, 1869. 
. - Aweek ago Saturday Mrs. G. and I went down 
via Warwick to Stratford-on-Avon, where we had 
never been, with Professor Flower,! to visit his father 
and mother, whose house (almost always thronged by 
Americans), a short mile out of Stratford, commands 
one of the most charming and wholly English views 
(that of English landscape-painters). On Monday 
morning Loring and the girls, who had passed the Sun- 
day at Warwick, drove down and took us up, and we 
saw the Shakespeare memorials, even to Anne Hatha- 
way’s cottage (all but myself, who studied brewing in- 
stead), and back to “ The Hill” for a lunch-dinner. 
Then they took my wife and departed to pass night 
and next day at Warwick. At evening I went by a 
direct train to Oxford to sleep, seeing first Pro- 
fessor Rolleston? for a moment. And, breakfasting 
1 Sir William Henry Flower, M. D., London; curator of the Hun- 
terian Museum. Succeeded Owen as Siroulee of the British Museum 
of Natural History. 
? George Rolleston, M. D., 1829-1881; professor of anatemy and 
physiology at Oxford. 
