I happened to be thinking the other day over the Gamlingay trip to the Lilies of the Valley (28/4.

The Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) is recorded from Gamlingay by Professor Babington in his "Flora of Cambridgeshire," page 234.

(London, 1860.)): ah, those were delightful days when one had no such organ as a stomach, only a mouth and the masticating appurtenances.

I am very much surprised at what you say, that men are beginning to work in earnest [at] Botany.

What a loss it will be for Natural History that you have ceased to reside all the year in Cambridge! LETTER 29.