xiv CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 1839—1840. 



LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 



Return to England — Visit to Mrs. Griffiths — Beautiful seaweed — Letter from 

 London — Continental tour— Rome, Colosseum, St. Peter's, Easter services, 

 Arminian Church, Illuminations — Letters from Dublin — London — Mr. Menzies 

 — Letters on shipboard — Sails for Capetown. . . . Pages 108 — 127 



CHAPTER VI. 1S40— 1842. 



THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAPETOWN. 



Mr. Backhouse— Schoolmaster — Extract from " Wilberforce's Correspondence " — 

 Church views — Thoughts on affliction — Letters on the church — Letter to 

 Mrs. L Pages 128—139 



CHAPTER VII. 1842—1849. 



COLLEGE APPOINTMENT. 



rilness — Return home — Resignation of Cape appointment — Death of Mr. Menzies 

 — Isle of Wight — Miltown — Wicklow — Return to Plassey— College appoint- 

 ment — College life — Leighton — Magee — Vacation — Kew — Thuretia — Mrs. 

 Griffiths — Fungi — College work — Death of Mr. Griffith — Woodsia tricomanes 

 — Trip in yacht — Death of Mrs. L. — " Phycologia Britannica" — Letters to 

 Mr. Thompson — Obtains Professorship to Royal Dublin Society— Clapham 

 Rise — Invited to lecture at Boston — Letter to Dr. Gray. . Pages 140 — 163 



CHAPTER VIII. 1849. 



TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Sails for Halifax — Harbour — Walk to Point Pleasant — Plants — Second ramble — 

 Pitcher plant—New York — Long Branch — Long Island — Croton Viaduct — 

 Hyde Park— Flowers — Church Service — River Hudson — Troy — Trenton Falls 

 — Buffalo— Impressions of Niagara. .... Pages 162 — 180 



CHAPTER IX. 1849. 



TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Arrival at Boston - Cambridge— Dinner party — Conversazione — Sir J. Richardson 

 — Agassiz — Mount Auburn — Evening party — Laura Bridgeman — Last lec- 

 ture — Thanksgiving day — Prescott — Yale College — Prof. Silliman — Mr. Dana 

 — Cooper — Dr. Wainwright — American City Parish — Philadelphia — Lucretia 

 Mott — Museum — Dr. Leidy — Morton — Girard College — Penitentiary — Church 

 — Christmas in New York — Dinner party. . . . Pages 181 — 199 



