A TRIP WITH LORD LINDLEY 435 
I have no notes of my trip with Sir Joseph in 1855, but 
I have a hvely recollection of its main incidents. The cholera 
was raging and we were fumigated on the frontier of Italy on 
the Stelvio Pass. Milan was stinking with Chloride of hme ; 
Venice was deserted, and the Scientific meeting at Vienna 
which Sir Jos. was to attend was put off. We saw the 
caves at Laibach and went to Breslau to see Goppert's 
celebrated collection of Amber containing seeds, insects, &c., 
which Hooker was very desirous of seeing. We wound up 
our trip by staying a week inTaris to see the Great Exhibition 
there and got home penniless. 
Our trip cost us £50 apiece ; and we often saved hotel 
bills by travelling at night when passing through unin- 
teresting country. I could talk French and German well 
then — I wish I could now ! Hooker had introductions to 
Scientific men, but I cannot recall their names — Humboldt 
and Koch, I think, at Berlin ; a Botanist at Vienna, Goppert 
at Breslau, and several in Paris. I think there was some 
one in Dresden and another in Munich ; and we went and 
spent a night with a friend at a house on a lovely lake not 
far from Munich, but I forget the name of the Man and the 
place. Von Martins may have been the man, but I am not 
by any means sure. 
I wish I could help you further. We met Henslow and, 
I think, a daughter of his when in Paris, and stayed at the 
same Hotel. 
