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the  Business  Editor  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal.  Mr.  B.  politely  showed 
me  their  pharmaceutical  laboratory,  adjacent  to  the  store, — the  same  for- 
merly used  by  Mr.  Bell.  Much  of  the  interest  of  this  brief  visit  to  London 
was  due  to  the  kind  attention  of  my  friend  Mr.  Daniel  ITanbury,  of  Allen  & 
Hanbury's,  Plough  Court,— the  establiahment  noted  as  that  of  the  late 
William  Allen,  F.R.S. 
Being  desirous  of  reaching  Paris  in  time  to  meet  friends  going  south, 
the  many  attractions  of  this  "  vast  hive  of  humanity  "  were  postponed 
until  August,  and,  leaving  on  the  28th  via  Dieppe  and  Rouen,  I  arrived 
in  that  city  on  the  29th  of  April.  During  a  stay  of  four  days  in  the 
great  metropolis,  the  leading  objects  of  an  architectural  character  were 
visited,  and  a  day  spent  at  the  Exposition,  which  afforded  much  gratifica- 
tion, and  gave  an  earnest  of  what  may  be  expected  on  returning  from  Ger- 
many. When  at  the  Garden  of  Piants,  being  near  6  Rue  Censier,  I 
called  on  the  venerable  Prof.  Guibourt,  with  a  letter  from  our  mutual 
friend  E.  Durand,  of  Philadelphia.  M.  Guibourt  was  engaged  in  his 
garden,  training  his  vines,  and  giving  directions.  He  soon  came  in,  and, 
on  presenting  my  letter,  he  recognized  in  the  superscription  the  hand- 
writing of  his  friend  Durand,  and  gave  me  a  very  cordial  reception.  M. 
Guibourt  did  not  speak  much  English,  and  I  speaking  but  little  French, 
we  .met  the  difficulty  by  placing  a  sheet  of  paper  between  us,  and  held  our 
interview  in  writing,  each  being  able  to  read  the  written  language  of 
the  other.  M.  Guibourt  looks  older  than  I  had  expected  to  see  him, 
judging  from  the  picture  in  our  College  of  Pharmacy.  In  stature  he  is 
below  the  medium  height,  otherwise  well  built,  rather  stooping  than  erect, 
with  a  quick,  vivacious  eye.  He  lives  very  retired,  not  far  from  the 
hall  of  the  Society  of  Pharmacy,  and  appears  to  be  very  industrious  in 
his  habits.  My  friend  Alfred  B.  Taylor  having  sent  by  me  a  steel  measure 
of  length,  the  half  of  the  unit  of  length  of  his  octaval  system,  to  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  should  the  subject  of  weights  and 
measures  be  considered,  I  gave  it,  with  an  explanatory  volume,  to  M. 
Guibourt,  who  agreed  to  take  charge  of  and  present  it  in  due  course  when 
the  Congress  should  meet  in  August,  on  which  occasion  I  hoped  to  meet 
him  again.* 
On  the  4th  of  May  we  set  out  for  the  south,  via  Dijon  and  Lyons,  pass- 
ing up  the  valley  of  the  Seine  until  this  river  became  a  rivulet,  and  down 
that  of  the  Saone  to  Lyons  and  the  Rhone,  following  the  latter  river  to  the 
Mediterranean  at  Marseilles.  This  long  distance  of  nearly  six  hundred 
miles  is  passed  by  rail  in  about  nineteen  traveling  hours,  stopping  half  an 
hour  at  Dijon,  half  a  day  at  Lyons,  and  half  a  day  and  a  night  at  Nismes. 
We  saw  but  little  of  the  great  centres  of  the  Burgundy  wine  and  the  silk 
trade.     Before  reaching  Dijon,  the  line  of  the  road  passes  through  the 
*  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  this  pleasant  anticipation  -was  never  realized,  as  tie 
venerable  savant  died  on  the  second  day  of  the  meeting  of  the  Congress,  at  which  he  should  haw 
presided. 
