xT. 70.] TO J. D. HOOKER. 719 
Naville and his wife, the latter new to me, and a Pour- 
.talés, cousin of our Count Pourtalés, who died last 
summer, and who, as a young man, followed Agassiz 
to the United States, and was a very important man . 
to Alexander Agassiz. His death was severely felt 
by all of us. ‘Naville, who is a capital Egyptolo- 
gist, we knew in Egypt twelve years ago, where he 
was exploring Edfou and monographing one of its 
acres of wall sculpture and hieroglyphics, and we met 
him at De Candolle’s the next summer. We went 
out last week to his place at Marigny, on the north 
side of the lake, charmingly placed, with a full-length 
view of Mont Blanc in front; the lake in the fore- 
und. 
Casimir and wife are in England; Lucien off at 
some baths for rheumatics. But Lucien’s wife was 
at De Candolle’s, and is a pleasant lady. On Sun- 
day De Candolle sent in his coupé, and took Mrs. 
Gray and me to dinner en famille at Vallon, — only 
Madame Lucien and some grandchildren. Vallon is 
a very pretty place and the house charming. Madame 
De Candolle is lively, even sprightly in her own house, 
and, I may as well tell you, is greatly in love with 
Lady Hooker. We were sent home in the coupé in 
great style; as also we were on Friday evening last, 
when De Candolle gave us, for parting, a small dinner 
party, — Professors Wartmann and Saussure, and the 
banker Lombard,— Plantamour, the astronomer, being 
detained by the stars; his wife came, however. All 
these Genevese speak English well, except Madame 
De Candolle, who gets off a little, and what with 
this and their pleasant ways, we were quite at home 
with them, 
