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Museum, Dr. Wallicli,i Mr. Miers and many otliers. 

 There was some social visiting in London and the 

 neighborhood. Mr. Abbott Lawrence was then Amer- 

 ican minister in London, and he and Mrs. Lawrence 

 were very kind and attentive, giving him a chance to 

 see at an evening reception some of the great men of 

 the London world : the Duke of Wellington, Lady 

 Morgan, WheweU the Master of Trinity, Lord Bough- 

 ton, Lord Gough, and many others. 



It was the year of the first great World's Exhibition, 

 and the building was then considered very wonderful. 

 Through the kindness of Professor Lindley he was 

 enaibled to see it before it was completed. 



There was a very charrning visit to Oxford in 

 March, where Dr. Gray made most delightful ac- 

 quaintances. He there first met Dean Church, then 

 a fellow of Oriel, who had him to dine. He also 

 dined with Mr. Congreve ^ at Wadham ; met Maske- 

 leyne, who showed him " some fine talbotypes, which 

 are a sort of daguerreotype on paper, and have a 

 beautiful effect for landscapes and buildings." Break- 

 fasted with Mr. Burgon and Mr. Church, at Oriel, in 

 Dr. Pusey's old rooms, and met Mr. Burgon again at 

 dinner, when dining in the " Common Room," at a 

 dinner given him by Mr. Church, and also Buckle 

 and Sclater. Dr. Jacobson, then Regius professor of 

 divinity, afterwards Bishop of Chester, and Mrs. 

 Jacobson, were very kind. Dr. Daubeny was then 

 professor of botany at Oxford, and there were some 

 plants to look at in the small herbarium kept in the 



^ Nathaniel Wallich, 1789-1854, a Dane by birth ; a disting-uished 

 East Indian botanist. 



^ Eichard Congreve, fellow and tutor of Wadham. Among his 

 many publications is The Translation of the Catechism of Positive Be- 

 ligion. 



