822 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
from which they were sent to Linneus. On the whole they are 
very well preserved considering their age. During my short stay 
I looked through the genera Veronica, Aster, and Solidago, and 
thereby was enabled to solve many doubts I had had about several 
species of these genera. Dr. Smith was so kind as to gi 
Salix reticulata from the Linnean Museum, which I shall look upon 
as the glory of my collection. Smith is extraordinarily busy. The 
Flora Britannica gives him a great deal of work. ‘The first five 
volumes of this work I saw at his house; a new number of the 
Transactions of the Linnean Society will shortly be issued. 
orwich most unwillingly, after the kind reception I had 
met with, and reached Yarmouth about eleven o’clock at night. 
The next morning I got my passport and that afternoon travelled to 
London. Of my short stay in that place I will say nothing at 
present. By chance, when walking in the Park with my brother I 
met my old friend Dr. Langsdorf, who travelled in Portugal with 
the Prince of Waldeck. He gave me news of Count von Hoff- 
mansegg and Professor Link. He knows both well, and made 
several contributions to their Flora Lusitanica, They were princi- 
war. 
Tleft London after two days’ stay and went to Eton. There lL 
made the acquaintance of two botanists, Messrs. Gotobed and 
i ith wh 
ed 
week at Eton I came back to London, whence to-morrow 
travel into the country, to Yorkshire, and from there shall probably 
go on to Edinburgh. Yesterday I conversed with Banks, Dryander; 
and Sowerby. But of this another time. 
London, 6 Nov. 1799. 
- ++... Botany is a favourite study in England, one might 
almost say a fashionable one. There are many botanists here, and 
still more amateurs whose number increases daily. Most English 
botanists only study the plants of their native country. ea 
