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Naville and his wife, the latter new to me, and a Pour- 

 tales, cousin of our Count Pourtales, who died last 

 summer, and who, as a young man, followed Agassiz 

 to the United States, and was a very important man 

 to Alexander Agassiz. His death was severely felt 

 by all of us. Naville, who is a capital Egyptolo- 

 gist, we knew in Egypt twelve years ago, where he 

 was exploring Edfou and monographing one of its 

 acres of wall sculpture and hieroglyphics, and we met 

 him at De Candolle's the next summer. We went 

 out last week to his place at Marigny, on the north 

 side of the lake, charmingly placed, with a full-length 

 view of Mont Blanc in front ; the lake in the fore- 

 ground. 



Casimir and wife are in England; Lucien ofiE at 

 some baths for rheumatics. But Lucien's wife was 

 at De Candolle's, and is a pleasant lady. On Sun- 

 day De Candolle sent in his coupe, and took Mrs. 

 Gray and me to dinner en famille at VaUon, — only 

 Madame Lucien and some grandchildren. Yallon is 

 a very pretty place and the house charming. Madame 

 De Candolle is lively, even sprightly in her own house, 

 and, I may as well teU you, is greatly in love with 

 Lady Hooker. We were sent home in the coupe in 

 great style ; as also we were on Friday evening last, 

 when De Candolle gave us, for parting, a small dinner 

 party, — Professors Wartmann and Saussure, and the 

 banker Lombard, — Plantamour, the astronomer, being 

 detained by the stars ; his wife came, however. All 

 these Genevese speak English well, except Madame 

 De Candolle, who gets off a little, and what with 

 this and their pleasant ways, we were quite at home 

 with them. 



