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Well-close Square, according to promise, to name some 
plants for him, but Dr. Valentine,’ a most ingenious 
vegetable anatomist and microscopist, being in town 
(had previously met him at Lindley’s), Mr. Ward had 
foregone his own advantage and invited Valentine and 
Quekett to meet me with their microscopes, so that 
the evening was very instructive to me, which I had 
not anticipated. Mr. Ward seems to have taken a 
fancy to me, for I can hardly imagine that he takes 
so much pains to oblige every one, absorbed as he is 
also in medical practice. He presented me with a 
beautiful botanical digger of fine polished steel, with a 
leathern sheath, which I suspect he has had made on 
purpose for me; though I don’t know why he should 
have thought of it. Mrs. Ward was inquiring about 
the Abbotts and their works, one of which she had, 
which makes her wish for more. I am often asked 
about Mr. Abbott, whose works seem much more 
generally known here than those of any other Ameri- 
ean religious author. I must find some for Mrs. 
Ward. 
Sunday evening, March 3.—I went this morning to 
hear, perhaps tee the last time, Baptist Noel. The 
sermon was from the last three verses of the same 
psalm (Ps. ciii.) from which he has preached on the 
former occasions when I have heard him in his own 
church ; and truly a good sermon it was. I have 
told you that the chapel is a large one. Yet it is 
so well filled that I have always had some difficulty 
in getting a seat, and to-day I actually stood near the 
pulpit during the whole service and sermon. But it 
1 William Valentine, a very promising young botanist, who wrote 
Neemep Bo on the structure of mosses. Went early to Tasmania, 
where 
