1835] JOURNAL— CAMBRIDGE. 47 



Sept. 10. Left Kenmare by mail car at 4.30 a.m., and took the 

 mail at Killarney for Cork. 



Sept. 11, Walked about Cork: a fine, clean, well-built town. 

 Started by the mail for Dublin ; passing through Clonmell, Kilkenny, 

 Carlow, Naas. The early part of the road of the country is in a 

 high state of cultivation. 



Sept. 13. Arrived at Holyhead; proceeded by the mail at 

 4.15 a.m., and reached Shrewsbury at 1. Called on Leighton, and 

 took up my quarters at his house. 



Sept. 14. "Went to Bomere, and saw plenty of Scheuckzeria 

 palustris in leaf, Utricularia minor, etc. 



Sept. 21. To Cambridge. 



Sept. 28. Went with J. A. Power to Dr. Jermyn's, at Swaffham 

 Prior. He gave me some mosses, etc. 



Sept. 29. Dr. Jermyn and I went to near Bury to look for 

 Herniaria glabra, but could not find it. Saw plenty of Carduus 

 crises, but no C. acanthaides. 



Oct. 6. Examined plants at the Linnean Society. 



Oct. 11. J. Ball called upon me. He came up for the first time 

 the evening before. 



Oct. 12. Put him into College (Christ's). 



Oct. 18, 19. The comet was seen peculiarly well both these 

 nights; it appeared to have a tail of the length of a yard, which 

 must have been very extensive. 



Nov. 6. Meeting of the Philosophical Society. I was elected a 

 member of the Council. Dined with the Society at the "Eagle." 

 Sixteen members present. 



Nov. 12. Finished my paper on " Certain imperfectly understood 

 British Plants " for the Linnean Society. I was elected an honorary 

 member of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History Society. 



Nov. 17. Dined with Professor Sedgwick, and was proposed as 

 a Fellow of the Geological Society. 



Nov. 27. Went to London to complete paper for the Linnean 

 Society, as it still wanted some alteration. Went in the evening to 

 Mr. E. Forster's, at Woodford. 



Dec. 1. Part of my paper was read at the Linnean Society. 



Dec. 5. Henslow and I went to hunt for Green-sand near 

 Haslingfield. 



Dec. 21. Left Cambridge for Christmas, to spend a short time 

 with my friend Holmes at St. Margaret's, Southelmham. 



