734 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. _ [1882, 
Much has happened since then. We have lost dear 
old Decaisne ; and now Darwin! We hardly should 
have thought, twenty-five years ago, that he would 
have made such an impression upon the great world, 
as well as on the scientific world ! 
I do not know if you ever saw much of him. He 
was a very charming man. 
Here we have lost, at a good age, both Longfellow 
and Emerson. 
have been anxious about Bentham, from whom 
there were discouraging accounts; but his last letters 
are hopeful, and he is steadily at work. Let me 
hope, and let me know, that you are quite well; also 
Madame De Candolle. 
TO J. D. HOOKER. 
CAMBRIDGE, September 17, 1882. 
. . . At Montreal we were guests of Dawson, who 
wanted to return some hospitality we had afforded 
him and his daughter. . . . Dawson has toiled for a 
lifetime at Montreal, under many discouragements, 
has accomplished a deal, and deserves great credit. 
... We had a pleasant time, and this fortnight in 
Canada was my only vacation. I went to visit the 
grave of Pursh, who died at forty-six. They have put 
his bones in their pretty cemetery, and put a neat 
stone over them. .. . 
Glad you are to send me scraps of one or more 
species of Dyer. It should have been a tinctorial 
genus, ... 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
October 8, 1882. 
It is probable that I have not responded by a line 
to your letter of April 13, yet I think my wife has 
