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civil. Mrs. Lindley is a quiet lady of plain man- 

 ners and apparently very domestic habits. Miss 

 Drake, whose name appears as the artist in aU of 

 Lindley's plates almost, was present, and is, I judge, a 

 member of his family, and perhaps a relative of Mrs. 

 Lindley. I saw Lindley's splendid " Sertum Orchida- 

 ceum," and a much more luxurious work, the " Orchi- 

 dacese of Mexico and Guatemala," by Bateman, a very 

 large-paper work a 1' Audubon. We looked over 

 some families together in a desultory way, and I took 

 up the Lupines and compared ours carefully with 

 Lindley's, which were named by Agardh. At dinner 

 met Dr. Quekett and Mr. Miers,^ a traveler in Bra- 

 zil. On reaching my room I found a note from Bell, 

 the zoologist (to whom I brought a letter from John 

 Carey, but left at his house, not being able to see him), 

 inviting me dine as his guest at the Linnsean Club, 

 before the meeting of the Linnsean Society. Fortu- 

 nately, as I do not like club-dinners, I had previously 

 accepted Bentham's invitation to dine quietly with 

 him and Mrs. B. on that day, so I sent a note of 

 declinature. I have already told you of my failure, 

 by my own carelessness, of seeing the opening of Par- 

 liament, which I regret, as I should like to see the 

 peers in official costume, and the peeresses in full 

 dress. 



It did not break my heart, but I returned to Ben- 

 tham's and looked over plants until the hour approached 

 to take my place in the park to see the queen, and — 

 what is finer — her superb horses, with what success 

 I have already said ; thence to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, where I received the welcome letters. After 



1 John Miers, 1789-1879 ; a botanist who studied in South Amer- 

 ica and wrote many papers. 



