18 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON, [1833 



July 1. Stephens, Westwood, and I went entomologizing to 

 Madingley wood. 



My 2, At eight this morning I was in the Senate House to 

 be "created" an M.A. Breakfasted at Power's, of Clare Hall. 

 Stephens, Westwood, and I went by coach to the Devil's Ditch, 

 and at six o'clock dined with the Rev. L. Jenyns at SwafFham 

 Bulbeck. 



July 3. We three went again to Madingley wood. 



July 4. Stephens went to Monkswood, Westwood and I went 

 to the Gogmagog Hills. I found forty specimens of Cardiapus 

 Matthewsii on the Helianthemum vulgare. 



July 10. To Bath. ... In a few days after my arrival at Bath 

 Mr. E. Collings, Librarian, Saville Row, requested me to look over a 

 list of the Bath plants, and make additions and corrections. I 

 found the list so imperfect that it was determined to endeavour to 

 complete my list of those which I had observed. I worked hard all 

 the summer and finished the manuscript on the 15th of October, 

 having had the loan of Dr. H. Gibbes' "Flora Bathoniensis," and 

 assistance from Mr. E. Simms (son of Mr. Simms, the bookseller, of 

 George Street) and Dr. J. F. Davies. 



August. I was employed with my Flora during the whole of 

 this month and September. 



Od. 26. This day, at about seven p.m., my mother was walking 

 across the drawing-room and fell down and fractured the neck of 

 her left thigh bone. We had Mr. Norman immediately. This 

 accident brought on an attack upon the lungs. . . . 



Nov. 4. This evening the first regular meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society took place. I was prevented from attending by my 

 mother's illness. 



Nov. 18. My poor mother died at about six o'clock a.m. 



Nov. 23. This day she was buried at Broughton Giflford, Wilts, 

 in a tomb formed for my father. 



Nov. 30. I this day corrected the last proof of my "Flora 

 Bathoniensis." 



Dec. 4. Went to the Linnean Society to examine the collections 

 about Euphorbia epithymaides. 



Dec. 6. Went to Mr. J. 0. Westwood's, at Hammersmith, and 

 stayed the night. He took me to Chiswick, where is the tomb of 

 Hogarth. 



Dec. 10. Went to Hammersmith, and in the evening walked to 

 town to the rooms of the Entomological Society, and then to the 

 meeting of the Zoological Society to see a new species of lion found 

 in India by Captain Smee, who killed eleven of them. It has very 

 little mane, and is shorter and thicker than the Indian lion. 



