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March 10. Went to Grantchester, and took Hyd. jtigularis, etc. 



March 14. Walked with Henslow, and found Adorn moschatellina 

 in flower. 



March 15. Signed a petition to do away with all religious tests 

 at the time of taking degrees, in any thing but Divinity. 



March 22. Went at 7 a.m. to Shelford Common to take Haliplus 

 elevatus with Power. 



March 26. Went with Power to the Hills. The Anemone Pulsa- 

 tilla in flower. 



March 27. Went to Copford in Essex to spend a short time 

 with E. A. Holmes and his father. 



March 29. Found in Layer wood Vinca minor in great plenty, 

 quite wild. 



April 1. Gathered the male and female of the Viscum album 

 from an apple tree. 



April 12. This day it snowed more than it had done during 

 the last winter. 



Afril 14. Eeturned to Cambridge. 



April 15, 16. Worked at the Philosophical Society, in renewing 

 the spirit for the bottles for the Museum and covering them with 

 india rubber, stretched tight. 



April 22. Went with Henslow to the Gogmagog Hills. Power 

 found Chrysom. sanguinolenta in a chalk pit. 



April 24. Took fifty specimens of Hydroporus jugularis. 



May 26. Went to Haslingfield to look for Relham's locality for 

 Myosurus minimus, but did not find it. 



May 11. James Brown and I took out of a maple rail fifteen 

 specimens of Nemosoma elongatulum, it was the further end of Little 

 Grantchester lane. 



May 15. Botanical expedition to Gamlingay. We obtained of 

 the boys there about seventy Natterjacks, and they had, as they 

 told us, three pecks more of them. I took Cassida salicorniae. 



May 17. Henslow, Molineux, Broome, Lingwood, and I went 

 to Horningsea fen to look for Sesia ; one was found. 



May 22. Left Cambridge to spend a few days with W. Whitear 

 at Cley-next-the-sea, Norfolk. 



May 23. We went upon the bank of shingle that divides the 

 marshes and the harbour from the open sea. Walked as far as 

 Blakeney Meals (low hills of sand nearly surrounded by the sea). 

 Found many plants, such as Carex arenaria, Elymus arenarius, Statice 

 reticulata, Chenopodium maritimum, Plantago maritima, Triglochin mari- 

 timum, etc. In the evening went to look at the outside of Cley and 



