TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, June 28th, 1873.
I write a line to wish you good-bye, as I hear you are off on Wednesday, and to thank you for the Dionoea, but I cannot make the little creature grow well.

I have this day read Bentham's last address, and must express my admiration of it.

(259/1.

Presidential address to the Linnean Society, read May 24th, 1873.) Perhaps I ought not to do so, as he fairly crushes me with honour.
I am delighted to see how exactly I agree with him on affinities, and especially on extinct forms as illustrated by his flat-topped tree.
(259/2.