382 SECOND JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1851, 



to the Duchesse de la Valliere. And here to meet him 

 came old Michaux ^ the younger, then eighty-one, who 

 had walked from his home (fifteen leagues), for the 

 pleasure of seeing Dr. Gray. And it was at Dr. 

 Gray's request that both Michaux and Jussieu sat for 

 their daguerreotypes for him, the only satisfactory 

 likenesses of either. Mr. Francois Delessert^ ex- 

 tended pleasant hospitalities, and Mr. Webb was very 

 kind and cordial. 



It was during the time of the Republic, Louis Na- 

 poleon, president, and there were some grand fetes in 

 May, in honor of the Republic, at which the officers 

 of the government were conspicuously absent. 



Dr. Gray returned to Kew in June to continue his 

 work, broken only by some days in London. 



TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 



Paris, April 30, 1851. 

 Dear Bentham, — I cannot give your message to 

 Weddell, for he is on his way to the Peruvian cin- 

 chona forests, to remain a year, — I suppose on a com- 

 mission from the manufacturers of quinine. Jussieu 

 still suffers with some affection of the stomach, but 

 is much better than last winter. Decaisne is quite 

 well, but is occupied with the Culture, and is little in 

 the herbarium, where Spach, Tulasne,^ Naudin,* and 

 Trecul ^ are in charge, under Brongniart and Jussieu. 



1 Frangois Andr^ Michaux, 1770-1856 ; son of Andr4 Michaux, 

 who traveled in North America from 1785 to 1796. Wrote Forest 

 Trees of North America. 



2 Frangois Delessert, brother of Benjamin. Died 1868. Liberal 

 patron of arts and sciences. 



^ Louis Een4 Tulasne, 1815 ; aide naturaliste at the Museum at Paris. 

 * Charles Naudin; now director of the Jardin d'Acclimitation at 

 Antibes. 



5 Augnste Trecul, Paris ; writer on Vegetable Histology. 



