JDH & family have just returned from France via Cherbourg. They visited Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, St-Lo, Coutances, Avranches & St Michel. Also a sea bathing place called Jullouville 6 [miles] south of Granville, which JDH describes. He found the vegetation there comparable to that of the Yarmouth Denes except there was also an abundance of Eryngium Campestre & Scilla Autumnalis. JDH writes that he like Normandy where he people, agriculture & industry seem prosperous. Asa & Jane Gray were with the Hookers in France for a fortnight before returning to England. JDH does not agree with Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 'with regard to the Rhododendron argenteum', he refers to his long familiarity with the plant & his original drawings of it. Notes that he has not yet seen 'Jackson's work' [John Reader Jackson?].