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civil. Mrs. Lindley is a quiet lady of plain man- 
ners and apparently very domestic habits. Miss 
Drake, whose name appears as the artist in all of 
Lindley’s plates almost, was present, and is, I judge, a 
member of his family, and perhaps a relative of Mrs. 
Lindley. I saw Lindley’s splendid “ Sertum Orchida- 
cewn,” and a much more luxurious work, the “ Orchi- 
dace of Mexico and Guatemala,’ by Bateman, a very 
large-paper work 4 l’Audubon. We looked over 
some families together in a desultory way, and I took 
up the Lupines and compared ours carefully with 
Lindley’s, which were named by Agardh, At dinner 
met Dr. Quekett and Mr. Miers,! a traveler in Bra- 
zil. On reaching my room I found a note from Bell, 
the zodlogist (to whom I brought a letter from John 
Carey, but left at his house, not being able to see him), 
inviting me dine as his guest at the Linnean Club, 
before the meeting of the Linnean Society. Fortu- 
nately, as I do not like club-dinners, I had previously 
accepted Bentham’s invitation to dine quietly with 
him and Mrs. B. on that day, so I sent a note of 
declinature. I have already told you of my failure, 
by my own carelessness, of seeing the opening of Par- 
liament, which I regret, as I should like to see the 
peers in official costume, and the peeresses in full 
dress. 
It did not break my heart, but I returned to Ben- 
tham’s and looked over plants until the hour approached 
to take my place in the park to see the queen, and — 
what is finer —her superb horses, with what success 
I have already said ; thence to the Horticultural So- 
ciety, where I received the welcome letters. After 
1 John Miers, 1789-1879; a botanist who studied in South Amer- 
ica and wrote many papers. 
