“Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others {{w|John Lindley|Dr. Lindley}}, the Secretary of the {{w|Royal Horticultural Society|Horticultural Society}}. He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe only as a botanist, in which character he thought most highly of him, he being the author of the New System of Botany; and that this is now the opinion of the most eminent botanists both in France and England. I rejoice at this unexpected intelligence.”