134 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. £1839, 
which I hope they will reach you early. I have since 
attended a meeting of the Linnean Society, Mr. Fors- 
ter in the chair. Lambert never comes now for fear 
of meeting Don, and also because he is a little piqued, 
perhaps at not being made president. Brown seldom 
comes, as he would have to take the chair in Lambert’s 
absence, and he fears he might annoy Lambert, for 
Brown is extremely tender of other persons’ feelings. 
I was most interested in the nominations to fill up the 
five vacancies of the foreign associates. They were 
~ Carus, Milne - Edwards, Dutrochet, Endlicher, and 
Torrey. The nomination was signed by Bentham, 
Brown, Boott, Forster, Owen, ete. I knew nothing 
of it till just before the meeting, and I may be allowed 
to say that I felt extremely gratified at such a very 
handsome compliment paid to my best friend. 
Lindley has given me to-day a copy of Griffith’s 
most admirable paper in the last part of the ‘ Transac- 
tions Linnean Society,” on the ovula of Santalum, 
Loranthus, Viscum, etc., an anatomical paper of the 
very highest order, —about forty pages, with eleven 
fine plates. I am going to buy all the other papers on 
Botany in the Linnean Transactions which I think 
valuable. They can be had of Coxhead, who buys 
sets and pulls them to pieces to sell separately. Let 
me not forget to tell you that, after having made dili- 
gent inquiry of Brown, Bentham, etc., I had nearly 
given up all hopes of finding Walter’s! herbarium. 
I spoke to Lindley yesterday, and he said he knew 
the son of old Fraser, who would be most apt to know 
something about it, and would give me his address, 
by which I could find him if in town. But to-day, 
1 Thomas Walter, d. 1788, in Carolina, U.S. Wrote Flora Caro- 
liniana. 
