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is therefore surrounded by a little grove, formed of the most 
splendid pines, particularly Cryptomeria and Ginko, which often 
wholly conceal the small, decayed, and ill-kept wooden hut which 
is dedicated to some of the deities of Buddha or Shinto. 
On the 23rd September the Europeans and Japanese of 
Yokohama gave a dinner and ball for us in the hall of the 
English club. It was beautifully lighted and decorated. Among 
other things there were to be seen on a wall portraits of Berzelius 
KOXUMEKT TO THUNBERG AND KAEMPFER AT NAGASAKI. 
and Thunberg, surrounded by garlands of greenery. The latter 
has a high reputation in Japan. His work on the flora of the 
country has lately been published in a Japanese edition with 
a wood-cut portrait, by no means bad, of the famous Swedish 
naturalist,^ engraved in Japan; and a monument to his and 
^ The work bears the title : Tai-sei-hon-zo-mei-so (short list of European 
plant-names), by Ito-Keske, 1829, 3 vols. 
