124 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
and Oregon plants sent down to his house, and has 
supplied me as well as he could; and a valuable par- 
cel I shall have of them. . . 
I have seen considerable of Brown, and like him 
much better than I thought, although he is certainly 
peculiar. The day we breakfasted with him we re- 
mained until four Pp. M., and he offered to show anything 
I wished at the British Museum. He showed us all 
Bauer’s drawings in his possession (I have since seen 
Francis Bauer). He has much more general infor- 
mation than I supposed; is full of gossip, and has a 
great deal of dry wit. 
He is growing old fast, and I suspect works very 
little now, and I fear there is not very much more 
work now to be expected of him. He knows every- 
thing! ... 
I spent a good part of yesterday with Bentham, and 
was to have met Hooker at the Geological Society in 
the evening; but botany prevailed and I stayed with 
Bentham, and was a little sorry afterwards, as I 
should have seen at the society Whewell! Daubeny! 
Chantry the sculptor, etc. — I have bought a colored 
copy of Wallich’s “ Plante Asiaticee Rariores,”’ 3 
vols. fol., very fine, for £15; the publishing price 
was £36,— the present price by Henry Bohn, who 
has bought up not only this but almost every other 
expensive British work on natural history, is £26. It 
is not yet come round from Edinburgh. I will soon 
send it to you.... I have seen the “ Atakta Bo- 
tanica”’ of Endlicher, where there is a plate of Un- 
gnadia (not Ungnodia, as spelled in “ Companion 
to the Botanical Magazine”), but no letter-press as 
yet. . «= 
January 30, Wednesday evening. . . . Yesterday 
pais : si 
Es acne ROCF 
