792 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. (1887, 
Campriper, February 22. 
ank you for sending me your edition of Ben- 
tham’s * Handbook,” which looks well in its more con- 
densed shape, and in which I dare say you have put a 
good deal of conscientious work. But it seems to me _ 
that Reeve & Company give it poor type and paper. 
1 am putting through a rehash of my “ Lessons in 
Botany,” ! more condensed, yet fuller, and with a new 
name. This, with the companion book, which I must 
live to do over, Deo favente, is the principal thing for 
bread, and I need it for an endowment to keep up the 
herbarium here, after my time. 
Well, — don’t speak of it aloud, — we have secured 
our passages for April 7, and if I can get present work 
off my hands in time, we may be on your soil soon 
after Easter. 
You may imagine me very busy, indeed. 
ours affectionately, A. Gray. 
Dr. Gray, with Mrs. Gray, landed in England, 
April 18, and went from Liverpool to stay at Sun- 
ningdale with Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker, where a 
quiet, restful week was most pleasantly passed. He 
went to London the first of May for a few days, meet- 
ing again old friends, dining with them, and dropping 
in for calls, “to report himself,’ as he said. He 
did a little work at Kew, going back and forth; then 
crossed to Paris, finding at the Jardin des Plantes 
what he had especially wanted to see, Lamarck’s 
herbarium, which had been acquired since he was 
last there. It completed satisfactorily his studies in 
Asters, as he had now seen everything of the genus 
to be found in herbaria of importance. 
1 Dr. Gray returned for this last oy to the title of his first book, 
published in 1836, Elements of Botan 
