(317/4.

Sir J.D.Hooker was a candidate for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh.

See "Life and Letters," I., pages 335, 342.) I hope your impressions will continue agreeable; my associations with auld Reekie are very friendly.

Do you ever see Dr.Coldstream?
If you do, would you give him my kind remembrances?
You ask about amber.

I believe all the species are extinct (i.e.without the amber has been doctored), and certainly the greater number are.