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which I hope they will reach you early. I have since 

 attended a meeting of the Linnsean Society, Mr. Fors- 

 ter in the chair. Lambert never comes now for fear 

 of meeting Don, and also because he is a little piqued, 

 perhaps at not being made president. Brown seldom 

 comes, as he would have to take the chair in Lambert's 

 absence, and he fears he might annoy Lambert, for 

 Brown is extremely tender of other persons' feelings. 

 I was most interested in the nominations to fill up the 

 five vacancies of the foreign associates. They were 

 Carus, Milne -Edwards, Dutrochet, Endlicher, and 

 Torrey. The nomination was signed by Bentham, 

 Brown, Boott, Forster, Owen, etc. I knew nothing 

 of it till just before the meeting, and I may be allowed 

 to say that I felt extremely gratified at such a very 

 handsome compliment paid to my best friend. 



Lindley has given me to-day a copy of Griffith's 

 most admirable paper in the last part of the "Transac- 

 tions Linnsean Society," on the ovula of Santalum, 

 Loranthus, Viscum, etc., an anatomical paper of the 

 very highest order, — about forty pages, with eleven 

 fine plates. I am going to buy all the other papers on 

 Botany in the Linnsean Transactions which I think 

 valuable. They can be had of Coxhead, who buys 

 sets and pulls them to pieces to sell separately. Let 

 me not forget to tell you that, after having made dili- 

 gent inquiry of Brown, Bentham, etc., I had nearly 

 given up all hopes of finding Walter's^ herbarium. 

 I spoke to Lindley yesterday, and he said he knew 

 the son of old Fraser, who would be most apt to know 

 something about it, and would give me his address, 

 by which I could find him if in town. But to-day, 



1 Thomas Walter, d. 1788, in Carolina, U. S. Wrote Flora Caro- 

 liniana. 



