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1829 July Thursday 23 (Got up at )5 20/60   / (Went to bed at) 11 50/60 Breakfast at 6 20/60.   At the Jardin des Plantes in 33 minutes from the Boulevard per fiacre at 7 27/60.   34th botanical lecture from 7 1/2 to 8 3/4, then walked about for 1/4 hour, then and afterwards in the amphitheatre reading the chemical lesson (leçon 39ieme) Généralités sur les substances végétales.   39th chemical lecture began at 9 20/60; came away at 10 20/60.   27th lecture on the mollusques from 10 35/60 to 11 3/4, then 22nd geological lecture from 12 to 1 35/60.   Walked home.   Sauntered along the Quais occasionally stopping to look at the prints but got home in 1 5/60 hour at 2 40/60, a good deal heated.   Changed my dress. Found on my desk kind little note from Lady Stuart thanking me for the pâte de jujubes. ‘I have to thank you, dear Miss Lister, for your kind thought of my cough, which, thank God, is much better; it was just what I wanted the night it wa...

1829 July  Wednesday 22 (Got up at) 6 3/4 / (Went to bed at) 11 1/2 Stood quite undressed (had only washed my teeth), reading over what was my uncle John’s German Grammar.   Much better, more clear, than that Mr. Marsh gave me.   Stood reading till 9 40/60, when Henry brought a kind little note from Miss Hobart, returning the 10 francs I lent her yesterday and asking me to call tomorrow or Friday ‘to finally arrange our Rambling hours and perhaps to elicit a little more about Stuttgard. Ever yours, Vere Hobart Aunt is very poorly now with a bad cold’ she had written a line or 2 two before ‘I am going to Saint Germains today (this is a miracle) without you ! Serait il possible? Wrote back, ‘Dear Miss Hobart, Going to Saint Germain without me!   I myself scarce know what to make of it.   Will you think of me, and will you make up your mind to let me have the journal on Saturday?   How punctual – paying debts of Monday!   Are there not other s...

1829 July Tuesday 21 (Got up at) 5 / (Went to bed at)11 35/60 Breakfast at 6 10/60 to 6 40/60.   Took a fiacre from the Boulevard and thence to the Jardin des Plantes in 1/2 hour.   Got there at 7 1/4 so had my choice of seats; took that next M. Desfontaine’s assistant, which a lady afterwards came to claim, saying it was always taken.   I said it was not taken when I came in.   She seemed to doubt that and I looked cross to have  the lie thus implied, and told [her] she might ask the gentleman behind whether it was taken or not, on which she walked off.   33rd botanical lecture from 7 1/2 to 8 1/2, then walked about.   Read 38ième leçon Chimie Générale and 38th chemical lecture began at 9 17/60.   Came away at 10 20/60; to 11 35/60 26th lecture on the Mollusques, then 21st geological lecture from 12 to 1 35/60.   To my surprise, there was only one fiacre on the stand, and that just taken.   Walked to the next stand Place Maube...

1829 July 20th Monday (Got up at) 6 1/4 / (Went to bed at)  11/14 Musing that if I went to Brussels with Lady Stuart and Miss Hobart the Barlows might meet me there to go down the Rhine to Manheim – thence to Munich, Innsbruck, Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, etc. in Italy or to Vienna first? Or return home more immediately from Manheim? Conning over maps particularly that of the Tyrol, much to see there, till 8 40/60.   Then think it a pity to make this tour now; ought to do it when more at liberty, when better instructed – In fact, would rather not go with Lady Stuart and Miss Hobart, and then should be quiet at home and save my money and improve myself and watch how my aunt goes on. She is getting so dropsical, I think she cannot live very long. Then looking over my papers and considering what answer to write Briggs.   Breakfast at 10 – index line 28 on the next page. From near 3 to 5, wrote 3 pages and the ends and a line under the seal to Miss MacLean – very kind le...

1829 July 19 Sunday (Got up at) 6 / (Went to bed at) 11 10/60 At my desk at 7.   Breakfast at 9 1/4.   Dressed. At my desk again at 10.   Prayers and Sermon 11 Bishop Sandford from 11 40/60 to 12 40/60. Came back to my room at 1.   Cut nails.  At my desk again at 1 10/60 till 5 55/60.   Dressed. Before and after breakfast till dinner wrote out 26th, 27th, 28th botanical lectures; 30th, 31st, 32nd chemical lectures of Saturday 4th, Tuesday 7th, and Thursday 9th instante mense and pages 39 to 48 inclusive; 13th,14th, and 15th geological lectures of Tuesday 2nd, Saturday 4th, and Tuesday 7th instante mense; and lecture 12 on the mollusques, of Saturday 4th instante mense; and lecture 17 on the mammifères, of Monday 6th instante mense.   Came to my room after dinner at 7 50/60.   Settled my accounts. Wrote the above of today. Rainy day.   Coffee at 8 55/60.   Came to my room at 10 10/60.   My cousin just come, came ge...

1829 July 18 Saturday (Got up at) 5 20/60 / (Went to bed at) 11 1/4   Breakfast at 6 20/60. Then walked about reading Leçon 37ième Chimie Générale. On arriving at the museum, no lecture today on the mollusques – had forgotten this.  Went to the École de Botanique.  Nobody admitted today, but the gardener very civilly let me in, and when one came to turn me out, said I was sure M. Neuman would allow me to stay, and so I was allowed to remain.  Arbor there; much interested – the time seemed as nothing. Excellent arrangement for study.  Examined cactus, cierges, les sedums, among which  sedum officinalis, house-leek, les malvacees, the guimauve or althaea, les casyophylliés, oeillets, etc.  At the museum at 11 1/2. 20th geological lecture from 12 to 2 6/60.   Then fiacre à l’heure from 1 11/60 to 4 3/60.   Drove to Becket’s Place de l’École de Médicine.   Bought as recommended by M. Audoin Traité D’anatomie Descriptive etc. p...

1829 July 17th Friday (Got up at ) 6 25/60 (Went to bed at )11 5/60   At my desk at 7 25/60 and till 10 wrote out all but the first 14 lines of 12th geological lecture (of 30th ultimo) and wrote out page 38 the classification méthodique written on the board at our 13th geological lecture Thursday 2 July (2nd   instante mense). Wrote out also 24th and 25th botany and 28th and 29th chemistry lectures of Tuesday 30th ultimo and Thursday 2nd instante mense.   Breakfast at 10 to 11 10/60 having skimmed over Galignani’s Messenger and my letter from Miss MacLean, 3 pages and part of one end, dated July 13th, Richmond Hill, enclosing a letter from Bredalbane to her, from which it seems that her brother is determined to go to Manheim in January to economise, in which case Sibella says she must return to her father – then there will be an end of her coming here. Miss   MacLean’s letter unsealed came in an envelope with a few lines from Miss Hobart. Kind, and as if she ...

1829 July 16 Thursday (Got up at) 5 20/60   Breakfast at 6 20/60. Fiacre took me up at my own door whence to the Jardin des Plantes in 1/2 hour at 7 20/60.   10 minutes too soon and a rainy morning, so got a good place.     31st botanical lecture from 7 1/2 to 8 1/2.   Besides recapitulation, we had the 2 familles naturelles malvacées and myster.   Àpropos malvacées,   Miss Hobart having asked me on Tuesday about bains de guimauve, index Merat p. 319 guimauve Althaea (αλτοσ, remède), Mauve, Malva, mallow, (μαλσσω, j’amollis). Spoke to Monsieur Desfontaines in coming out.   Asked him about guimauve.   He said the druggists made a pâte de la racine, and that the bains de guimauve were adoucissants.   Asked if I could buy the plant at the marché aux fleurs.   Yes!   But I might have done out of the Jardin instead.   Therefore, as walking about reading my Chemistry lecture as usual, went to one of the serres and asked ...

1829 July 15th Wednesday (Got up at) 6 1/4 / (Went to bed at) 11 50/60 At my desk at 7 20/60 settling accounts, etc.  From 8 1/4 to 9 20/60, wrote out Lecture 10 on the mollusques of Tuesday 30th ultimo.  Breakfast at 9 20/60.  An hour at breakfast and getting back again into my bedroom, for Cameron had fastened the only door left open.  Therefore, all the keys being inside, George obliged to pick one of the locks.  Then wrote out pages 45 and 46, Lecture 11 on the mollusques of the 2nd instante mense.   Then dressed.   Wrote note to Messers Galignani for their Guide Through the Netherlands and to ask the distance from Paris to Frankfurt on the Maine and whether there is a regular and comfortable steam packet from Cologne to Rotterdam. Off at 11 39/60 and there per fiacre at 12 1/4.   The lecture had just begun, on the animaux marsupiaux; over at 1 1/4.   Told Monsieur Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire the niece of Madame L’ambassadrice was so...