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scopic drawings to illustrate the genera of ferns; and 
Hooker then arranged for their publication in the 
well-known volume for which he furnished the text. 
Saw not rarely N. B. Ward, who lived at Wellclose 
Square in Wapping, and whose cultivation of plants 
in closed cases attracted much attention. Went with 
Ward one day to dine with Menzies, then over ninety; 
he lived, with a housekeeper, at Maida Vale, or some- 
where beyond Kensington. 
George P. Putnam, of the firm of Wiley & Put- 
nam, was then resident in London, and through him 
I managed the expenditure of the money placed in my 
hands for the purchase of books for the University of 
Michigan, in a manner that proved satisfactory. 
There is still in my possession, but not in reach for 
ready reference, a file of letters which I wrote home to 
the Torrey family while I was in Europe. If I were to 
find them and refresh my memory by them, I should 
make these notes quite too long. I will therefore 
trust to memory and touch lightly here and there on 
my Continental journey. I think it was early in 
March, 1839, that one morning I took passage on a 
small steamer from London, Bentham coming to see 
me off, to Calais; thence diligence for Paris. My 
lodgings, near the Luxembourg, were not far from the 
hina of P. Barker Webb, to whom I had introdue- 
tions, and who was very useful to me; he owned the 
herbarium of Desfontaines. At the Jardin des Plantes 
were old Mirbel, who occupied himself only with 
vegetable anatomy, Adrien Jussieu, with whom I cor- 
responded as long as he lived, Brongniart, Decaisne, 
then aide-naturaliste, and Spach, curator of the her- 
barium. Jussieu had his father’s herbarium in his 
study. Besides Michaux’s herbarium at the Jardin 
