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made to understand each other. Still more amused 
would you have been to see how I managed to make 
a bargain with a bookseller for a few books I wished 
to purchase. IJ feel the want of French sadly, and 
have no time for study. 
Thursday evening. —I have been again occupied 
the whole day at the Jardin des Plantes, and went at 
six o'clock to dine with Mr. Webb to meet M. Gay.! 
Webb had taken care to ask an English student also, 
who speaks French much better than he does English, 
who sat between Gay and myself and interpreted when 
it became necessary. But Gay speaks a little of what 
will pass for English, mixed here and there with 
French, so that I got on very well indeed. 
Gaudichaud was also there, a very interesting man 
if one could talk with him. We were kept rather late, 
so that it is now past twelve, so I must bid you good- 
night. 
Monday evening. . . . At three o’clock I went to 
the Institute. I found that the room was already 
crowded. I inquired for Jussieu and Brongniart, the 
only members I could think of that I knew, but they 
were not there and therefore I could not get in. After 
some time Jussieu came in. But it was then too late, 
so I lost the object for which I had given up half the 
day. Jussieu, however, took me into the library, which 
is worth seeing. I employed the remaining hour or 
so in pinvhaeiap some prints of remarkable buildings, 
ete., in Paris, and I was also tempted to buy a few 
engravings from some of the great masters. After 
dinner I went to Mr. Webb’s, where I looked at plants 
round the world in the Bonite, and published the Botany of the ex- 
pedition. 
1 Jaeques Gay, died 1863. Born in Switzerland, and a pupil of 
Gaudin. 
