Rt. 73.] TO J. D. HOOKER. - T59 
Your two letters reached us at Philadelphia, on our 
return from North Carolina and Virginia. . . 
Yesterday we had Sir William ad Lady Picinean: : 
To-day Traill and wife (young and bright) of Aber- 
deen looked in and Iunched. 
I come home to a heap of letters and parcels and 
affairs, to keep me busy awhile. .. . 
Well, the meeting at Montreal was a success, and 
made a pleasant occasion. The influx of visitors 
from British Association to Philadelphia made that 
meeting very good too. George Darwin I just saw 
for a moment at Montreal, and Mrs. Darwin also at 
Philadelphia, one evening, — handsome and winning. 
I hope you have got the copy of “Synoptical Flora 
II.” for your own shelf, through Wesley. Slips and 
omissions are already revealing, especially in the 
index. 
IT am wonderfully strong and well. Mrs. G. well 
up to average, both much set up by holiday, of which 
mine has now lasted a month. 
What a deal you have fished out of Bentham’s 
earlier life! I thought you meant Toulouse, not 
Tours. Bentham used to speak of Toulouse and that 
part of France. . . 
Among the snetatits feats of his father was one I 
have somewhere heard or read of, that he made a fleet 
of articulated transport boats for descending the 
crooked channels of the Russian rivers. 
I think you might have specified De Morgan’s dis- 
covery of Bentham’s contribution to logic, and his 
able defense of the reclamation, to which Herbert 
Spencer’s “ Verdict” in 1873 was not particularly 
1 Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelyin, —the distinguished physi- 
cist. 
