720 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1881, 
Boissier had written to us to come down to Valeyres, 
but he had expected us earlier. As he was to be off 
in less than a week, and Mrs. Gray well used up, on 
reaching Geneva, we declined, and begged him to 
come to Geneva, which he did on Monday, and stayed 
well into Tuesday. He took me to his herbarium, 
which is large and well kept, and I looked up some 
old things of Lagasea’s, which I could find no trace 
of at Madrid. Barbey I regretted not to see. He 
goes with his father-in-law to the Balearic Isles, — 
goes, indeed, because he is concerned for Boissier’s 
health, and well he may be. 
Argovian Miiller I saw something of ; busy and 
happy in the care of the garden, the Delessert herba- 
rium, and the professorship in the new university, 
built up with the late Duke of Brunswick’s money. 
The death of his only son was a great blow to him; 
but he seems cheerful and is very busy. De Can- 
dolle is working over Cultivated Plants and their 
origin. 5 
I see I must go home this autumn, and, indeed, 
that seems best on almost all accounts. So I should 
be at Kew soon, and once there I must set myself to 
work most diligently, and make the most of what 
time remains. 
I hear nothing as yet of Bentham. I hope he is 
going on well, and the Graminee nearly finished, and 
that he will next take up Liliacer. . . . 
Arx LA CHAPELLE, June 8, 1881. 
. . . Then we took train on the road down the Mo- 
selle (which we had followed from Metz). From 
Tréves halfway down to Coblentz the country had a 
