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attended divine worship conducted in the English 
language. 
Tuesday morning, April 23.— As early as possible 
in the morning yesterday I called on Lady Bentham, 
the mother of my good friend who has taken so much 
pains to aid me and her daughter, Madame Duchesnil ; 
they live quite retired, and are occupied in directing 
the education of the son of Madame Duchesnil, a fine 
lad of about thirteen. . . . The ladies received me 
with great cordiality. I prolonged my call to an hour, 
and accepted an invitation to take tea with them this 
evening. . . . I went to the Garden, called upon M. 
Dunal,! the best botanist here, who, having lived single 
to the age of I should say fifty years, has found out 
that it is not good to be alone, and has just taken a 
wife. I did not stay very long, as I found when I 
called that he was not in his Healy, but I suppose in 
his drawing-room, and I could not be so cruel as to 
keep him from the company of his beloved. 
I called next upon Delile,? but as he was not in, I 
spent a long time in looking over the Garden, noticing 
all the little details and arrangements that it would be 
useful for me to know. On his return we spent the 
remainder of the afternoon in looking over his plants 
collected in America. I dined with him at six o’clock, 
and spent nearly all the evening. . . . They have not 
water enough, however, to supply the Botanic Garden 
sufficiently, which has a very barren soil, and in this 
dry climate, where it seldom rains from this time till 
1 Michel Felix Dunal, 1789-1856; professor of botany at Montpel- 
lier. “One of the earliest friends of A. P. De Candolle. Author of 
several important monographs ”’ a 
2 Alire Raffeneau Delile, 1778-1850 ; — ed Garden of 
Agriculture established at Cairo. Later he succe e Candolle in 
the Botanic Garden, Montpellier. A iAnind ot wenn 
