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three sides, was crowded. This afternoon his assistant, 
Mr. Garwood, preached, and there was room enough, 
but we had a good sermon. This Mr. Garwood, you 
may have seen by the papers, has lately been perse- 
cuted a little by his bishop, for acting as secretary to 
the London City Mission. Both he and Mr. Noel 
are doing much good in raising the standard of piety 
and active benevolence in the church they belong to. 
I hope by next Sunday to inquire out Dr. Reed’s 
church. I have not been out this evening, but have 
employed myself in copying out my poor notes on 
the morning sermon, which | trust soon to forward to 
you. 
Monday evening, January 28, 1839.—TI spent the 
morning with Bentham, by appointment, with whom I 
breakfasted and looked at Leguminosz until two P. M. ; 
then joined Joe Hooker (took leave of Sir William 
this morning, who has returned to Glasgow, via 
Woburn) ; made calls, among others on Dr. Bostock, 
who received me very politely; we then dined to- 
gether at a chop-house; called on Dr. Boott, spent an 
hour or two in his very pleasant family ; then attended 
a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, in 
which al that interested me was a paper by Professor 
Robinson of New York, on some interesting matters 
of ancient geography connected with his travels in 
Asia Minor. The paper was sent to the Geographical 
Society by a learned German geographer ; it excited 
much interest. . . . 
London, January 24, 1839.—I have so far been 
seeing men and things chiefly, but have had one 
or two botanical sittings with Bentham, who is a thor- 
oughly kind and good fellow. He immediately had 
all the remaining parcels of Douglas’s Californian 
