In the afternoon we saw at the house of Herr Beathel or Buddel, a preacher living in Gray's Inn, a handsome collection of plants. For he has about twenty large volumina, all very well kept, although they are only stitched with thread so that they may be changed with ease. The most curious of all was a volume containing nearly three hundred varieties of all kinds of muscis or mosses. We were amazed that he managed to keep them so well in a book, since they are not so easily crushed and better preserved in drawers; this is all the more necessary, since most varieties cling firmly to pieces of wood and are thus not very suitable for a book. He had a microscopium so that we might be better able to observe the structure. It is truly remarkable. Another volume containing a hundred and fifty varieties of different graminibus indigenis was also well worth seeing. In the other handsome voluminibus there are not a few exotica. He is, indeed, an amiable and polite man, of some fifty years of age.