792 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1887, 



Cambkidgb, February 22. 



Thank you for sending me your edition of Ben- 

 tham's " Handbook," wliicli looks well in its more con- 

 densed shape, and in which I dare say you have put a 

 good deal of conscientious work. But it seems to me 

 that Eeeve & Company give it poor type and paper. 



I am putting through a rehash of my " Lessons in 

 Botany," ^ more condensed, yet fuller, and with a new 

 name. This, with the companion book, which I must 

 live to do over, Deo favente, is the principal thing for 

 bread, and I need it for an endowment to keep up the 

 herbarium here, after my time. 



Well, — don't speak of it aloud, — we have secured 

 our passages for April 7, and if I can get present work 

 off my hands in time, we may be on your soil soon 

 after Easter. 



You may imagine me very busy, indeed. 



Yours affectionately, A. Gray. 



Dr. Gray, with Mrs. Gray, landed in England, 

 April 18, and went from Liverpool to stay at Sun- 

 ningdale with Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker, where a 

 quiet, restful week was most pleasantly passed. He 

 went to London the first of May for a few days, meet- 

 ing again old friends, dining with them, and dropping 

 in for calls, "to report himself," as he said. He 

 did a little work at Kew, going back and forth ; then 

 crossed to Paris, finding at the Jardin des Plantes 

 what he had especially wanted to see, Lamarck's 

 herbarium, which had been acquired since he was 

 last there. It completed satisfactorily his studies in 

 Asters, as he had now seen everything of the genus 

 to be found in herbaria of importance. 



^ Dr. Gray returned for this last book to the title of his first book, 

 published in 1836, Elements of Botany. 



