810 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1887, 
official order which somewhat astounded his cabinet 
officers. ‘ Why, Mr. President,’ they said, ‘ you can’t 
do that.’ ‘Can’t do it?’ replied General Jackson ; 
‘Don’t you see that I have done it?’ And so we 
internationals have come and done it. I am the un- 
worthy spokesman of such a numerous and such a 
distinguished array of scientific foreigners as have 
- never been assembled before. Next year, if you will, 
you shall have as many more. When you too are 
ready to cross the Channel or the North Sea, we shall 
compose only a larger scientific brotherhood. And 
when you cross again the Atlantic, the brotherhood of 
science will be the more increased, and its usefulness 
in proportion. 
“In behalf of your foreign guests, I heartily second 
the motion.” 
From Manchester Dr. Gray went to Failand, to his 
friend Sir Edward Fry; then followed a visit to 
Miss North, in Gloucestershire, where he met, among 
others, Mr. and Mrs. Elwes,! and drove one day to 
Tortworth to lunch with Lord and Lady Ducie; then 
to Kew. A few days there with his kind friends, Dr. 
and Mrs. Oliver, a farewell visit to his old friend, Miss 
Sullivan, at Broom House, to the Camp to say good- 
by to the Hookers, and finally to Liverpool to sail in 
the Pavonia, October 7. Just six months, as Dr. Gray 
said, of wonderful enjoyment and success ; everything 
had gone as it should, there were no mishaps, the 
days had run on as each had been planned, and he 
came home in wonderful vigor and spirits. 
} Henry John Elwes, author of the sumptuous monograph of the 
genus Lilium. 
