760 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1885, 
needed for the establishment of the fact. De Morgan 
was not a man to leave his work half done, especially 
as against Hamilton. 
I only regret that the length to which these most 
interesting matters extended stood in the way of your 
giving a more detailed account of Bentham’s botani- 
cal work, on which another article would be timely. 
I must now, before long, attempt something of this, 
for the American Academy’s éloge. And I pray you, 
if you are not doing it yourself, to send me hints and 
suggestions. Sheet full, and I will not begin another 
to-day, but add only my wife’s love to you and Lady 
Hooker. 
January 9, 1885. 
The souvenir of dear Bentham has come to hand, 
is in its place on my table, and the first use I make 
of it, now in position, is to write to you this letter of 
thanks, — to you for awarding it to me, and to dear 
Lady Hooker for so promptly forwarding it. The 
stand is a beautiful piece of marble, bearing its two 
inkstands.! Was there ever anything to occupy the 
sunken area between them? .. . 
Of myself I have not much to write. The pros- 
pect of getting off for the latter part of winter has 
just prevented my settling down to the “ Flora,” and 
I have found plenty else to keep me actively em- 
ployed, mainly with a revision of some boragina- 
ceous genera, now in printer’s hands, which I hope, 
while it unsettles old work, will settle it better and 
permanently, as far as anything we do can be said to 
be lasting. 
! The inkstand is now placed in the library of the herbarium with 
Sir William J. Hooker’s hand-glass, so much used by Dr. Gray. 
