136 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
of use. His other matters I will take in hand, but 
he must not expect $20 to procure a doublet ~yth 
inch focus, two micrometer glasses, and a case of fais 
secting instruments. I have some engagements before 
me with microscopical people, and when I get from 
them all the information I can, I will set about these 
affairs more understandingly. . 
Saturday evening, February 9. —I have been en- 
gaged nearly the whole day upon the herbarium you 
so much wished to examine, viz., that of Walter. I 
have not yet finished ‘it, and find the examination very 
tedious, as the specimens are very often not labeled, 
except with the genus in his “Flora,” so that I have 
first to make out his own species, and then what they 
are of succeeding authors. 
The specimens are mostly mere bits, pasted down in 
a huge folio volume. I suspect this was done by 
Fraser, and the labels have sometimes been exchanged, 
so that it requires no little patience. Some of the 
things I most wished to see are not in the collection, 
and ‘there are several in the collection which are not 
mentioned in the “Flora.” You would laugh to see 
what some of the things are that have puzzled us: 
thus, for instance, his “ Cucubalus polypetalus” is 
Saponaria officinalis! His “ Dianthus Carolinianus ” 
is Frasera! in fruit. I will soon send you my notes 
on the collection, or a copy of them. Bentham looked 
over the Leguminose, Labiatz, ete., with me. I have 
had two sittings at Pursh, but have not yet finished ; 
I hope another day will do it, but am not certain. 
I shall still require about three days more at the Brit- 
ish Museum, two at the Linnean Society, and one at 
Lindley’s. An evening or two at Bentham’s will suf- 
fice to certify his Labiate, Scrophularinz, ete. I must 
