^T. 40.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 383 



Webb is well, and so is Gay, who is quite happy, liv- 

 ing on his half pay, which the Republic has secured 

 to him, with his rooms free of rent, and some savings 

 from his former income. I have not seen Gaudichaud 

 yet; but he has offered to come and show me his 

 Sandwich Island collections, etc., of which he has 

 issued some plates, in " La Voyage de la Bonite," but 

 no text has appeared, and none seems likely to appear. 

 I gave to Dr. Alexander the list and notes on Fend- 

 ler's Chagres plants. He will hand it to you when 

 he sees you in London. 



TO GEORGE EN-QELMANST. 



Paris, May 6, 1851. 



Robert Brown told me that Link would be suc- 

 ceeded in his excellent and lucrative professorship 

 either by Grisebach ^ or by our excellent friend 

 Braun. Since I have been here, a young man from 

 Berlin says that the choice has fallen on Braun, — to 

 my great joj', for I love Braun very much. I have 

 given Lowell, who leaves Paris to-day, and will be 

 in Germany in June and July, a letter to Braun, ad- 

 dressed to Giessen or Berlin. 



Prince Paul's sensitive branches of Mimosa catch- 

 ing unwary travelers is rich ! 



TO 



Wednesday morning, June 11. 



Settled down to usual Kew routine ; glad enough 

 to get back to quiet and superlative neatness ; to less 



1 Heinrich Rudolph August Grisebach, 1813-1879. Hannover and 

 Qottingen. Professor of botany in the university. " A prominent and 

 voluminous systematic botanist. His most important work a treatise 

 on the Vegetation of the Earth " [A. G.]. 



