A JUROK AT THE GKEAT EXHIBITION 865 
as editor of the reports, to see the whole series through the 
press, ' which is a great bore in some cases and very easy in 
others ; there will be 1600 pages of it.' 
This employment involved the tedious journey from Kew to 
town three or four times a week. His ' Report on Substances 
used as Food ' was duly printed among the other reports that 
year ; it was followed next year by his and Lindley's ' Report 
of an Enquiry into the best mode of detecting Vegetable Sub- 
stances mixed with Coffee for the purposes of Adulteration.' 
His own work as a Juror was honorary ; for his work as 
editor of the reports he received remuneration, a grateful 
increase to his precarious income, albeit the time expended 
on the work ran to eight months instead of three, as proposed. 
As he writes to Bentham in July 1852, apropos of ' working 
very hard now at New Zealand Flora, the Garden and my 
Indian Journal ! ' 
Chicory versus Coffee report is gone in — Parsnips, Mangel 
wurzel, Beans, Acorns, Tan ! etc., come next. I Hke the 
work, but that is the worst of me, I like anything for a change, 
and believe I should take to any pursuit with avidity (except 
drink and Wordsworth) that was put on me. 
