
          North of Europe) but I shall
 now wait till I hear from 
 you. I put all the things 
 of yours into one of my cupboard,
 but last winter, as the 
 arranging of my herbarium 
 proceeded, I transferred them 
 all bodily to a closet. On
 taking them up for examination
 I find the state of the case 
 as I have said. Can 
 you give me any information 
 that may relieve my anxiety? 
 I see not how they can have 
 got mislaid here, where I have 
 but two stowing-away places, 
 nor how they should have got
 separated from the rest, particularly 
 as I have never looked at them. 


 On the other hand, if Bentham
 still has them, he cannot be 
        