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also have a day with Brown, if I can get it at his own 
house. I hope very nearly to finish this next week, if 
life and health are continued. 
February 12, 1839.—I am + tenet even another 
day will not see the end of Lambert’s collection, and 
I suspect a week is none too little for the British 
Museum. Lady Charlotte Bury came into Lam- 
bert’s and had a long chat with him; such a pair 
of originals! She is to dine with Lambert on Sun- 
day, but stipulated early, as she always made it a point 
to read prayers to her servants on Sunday evening ! 
February 13, Wednesday evening, or rather one 
o'clock, Thursday. — Rose and breakfasted at eight, 
which is become my regular practice; started for 
Lambert’s at ten, where I worked incessantly till five 
P. M.; returned to my room; dressed; went to the 
City, where I dined, and about eight o’clock arrived at 
Ward’s, whose microscopical party this evening was 
given chiefly on my account. Some eight or more 
splendid microscopes were in active use when I ar- 
rived ; and the greater portion of the chief microscopic 
people were there. I was introduced to Stokes, Solly, 
Powel, Bowerbank.! ... Also Mr. Quekett, whom 
I knew before, and several amateurs, such as Boott, 
Bennett, Bentham, Don, were present. It was a feast 
to me, you may be sure, and I acquired some useful 
knowledge, and saw some strange things: the infuso- 
ria in flint ; queer fossil woods, which are all the rage 
here, and are extremely curious ; fibrocellular tissue, 
the most beautiful thing you can imagine. One of 
the best of the microscopists, Mr. Bowerbank, gave me 
one or two curious microscopical objects, whites he had 
1 James Scott Bowerbank, aad Wrote on Sponges and the 
Fossil Fruits of the London 
