380 SECOND JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1851, 



little Botanic Garden in an old greenhouse. The 

 days were crowded with interesting sight-seeing and 

 in meeting agreeable people. 



From Oxford, Dr. Gray went to Cambridge, where 

 he met again a traveling acquaintance made on the 

 passage from Kotterdam, Dr. Thompson, then Greek 

 tutor, later Master of Trinity, who was very kind in 

 doing the honors of Trinity, King's Chapel, etc. At 

 his rooms. Dr. Gray met Professor Challis and other 

 Cambridge men. The grounds about the colleges were 

 then at their greatest beauty, the banks of the Cam 

 yellow with primroses, the whole setting off the beauti- 

 ful bridges and stately buildings. Another traveling 

 acquaintance met in the street, recalling an experience 

 on the Furca, asked Dr. Gray to dine with him at 

 Caius College, saying his name was Mackenzie. He 

 was Bishop Mackenzie, who died in south Africa. 



On returning to Kew, Dr. Gray found Dr. Joseph 

 Hooker, just back from his journey to the Himalayas 

 and Thibet. Dr. Thompson ^ was also there, just home 

 from India, where he had been imprisoned with Lady 

 Sale and others, twenty of them in one small room, 

 during the trouble in Afghanistan. And one day 

 came an invitation to lunch from tbe Hookers', " to 

 meet Mr. Darwin, who is coming to meet Dr. Hooker ; 

 is distinguished as a naturalist." " Mr. Darwin was 

 a lively, agreeable person" [Mrs. Gray's journal]. 



TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 



5 CuMEERIiAND Plaoe, Kew, April 14, 1851. 



For myself I am glad that I am perfectly recovered 

 from the effects of my accident, and am as active as 



1 Thomas Thompson, 1817-1878 ; son of the distinguished chemist 

 of Glasgow ; explorer and traveler in India ; director of the Calcutta 

 Botanic Garden. 



