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has been, though the season is little more advanced than 
at New Yuck. In two weeks I must be again upon 
the wing, and shall soon meet the summer. a want to 
see the south of France and sunny Italy. Adieu. 
Tuesday evening, April 2. — I intended to have had 
time this evening to write several letters, but Decaisne 
has been with me, and did not leave until almost 
twelve, we had so much to talk about. I have been 
the morning at the Garden; have worked very 
hard, indeed, and have nearly finished there. To- 
morrow is like to be a broken day, as I have made an 
engagement to see Dr. Montagne! and his microscope 
at twelve o’clock, which will take an hour or two out 
of the very best part of the day. I will try to turn 
the fragments of the day to some account. But now 
good-night. 
“ To each, to all, a fair good- 
o 
night, 
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.’’ 
Monday evening, April 8. . Saturday was a little 
more diversified. I went at aio o’clock in the morn- 
ing to Professor Richard’s,? who lives near me, exam- 
a some plants of Michaux, then took my breakfast, 
went to the Garden for three or four hours, but returned 
at two o’clock to see the Chamber of Peers in session, 
M. Gay having provided me with a ticket of admit- 
tance, which procured me a very good seat. The mem- 
bers all wear a kind of court dress, the military peers 
swords, and those who have them display the insignia 
of the order of the Legion of Honor, and so forth. 
Several new peers were admitted, but before they 
1 Jean F. Camille Montagne, 1784-1865; surgeon in the French 
army. Retired in 1830, and devoted himself to cryptogamic botany. 
? Achille Richard, 1794-1852 ; professor of botany in the Ecole de 
Médecine, Paris; son of L. Claude Richard. 
