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and Equisetum variegatum near to the latter place. Dr. Agardh, the 

 younger, of Lund (with whom I had become acquainted at the 

 meeting), was to have accompanied us, but was prevented by the wet. 



Sept. 19. Left Liverpool by the railroad, and leaving it at 

 Whitmore, proceeded by coach to Shrewsbury. Spent the after- 

 noon with Leighton. 



Sept. 20. Leighton and I went to Haughmond Abbey and 

 studied the Eubi. 



Sept. 21. Left Shrewsbury and proceeded to Coventry. 

 Sept. 22. Reached Cambridge. 



Oct. 7. Went to Dr. Jermyn's, at his new house at Long Stanton, 

 and remained there till Monday. 



Oct. 14. Breakfasted with Sylvester to meet Mr. Rothschild, a 

 son of the late banker in London, a Jew, who wishes to enter at 

 the University. 



Nov. 2. The first stone of the Fitzwilliam Museum was laid. 

 We mustered in the Senate House, and went in form to the place. 

 The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ainslie of Pembroke College, laid the 

 stone, and made a short speech in English. Mr. Crick, the Public 

 Orator, made a long Latin one. An immense number of persons 

 attended. 



Nov. 6. Went to London, and attended a meeting of the 

 Entomological Society. 



Nov. 7. Linnean Society meeting. Dined with the Linnean 

 Club. 



Nov. 17. Anniversary Dinner of the Philosophical Society. 



Dec. 7. At a meeting of the " Society for protecting the inde- 

 pendence of the Town," I obtained a Petition to be ordered from 

 this Town in favour of Irish Corporation Reform. 



Dec. 9. Elected a member of " Hendeka," a debating society at 

 Christ's. 



Dec. 19. Went to London; dined with Linnean Club, and 

 attended the meeting. Left a paper on Cuscuta for the Society. 



Dec. 20. Went to Bath. 



1838. Jan. 1. Thomas Fortune and I walked to Twerton to 

 see what progress had been made with the railroad. We found 

 that the Turnpike road had been turned so as to run much nearer 

 to the river, and that the railroad was to be carried close to it, so 

 as not to cross it. 



Jan. 9. The thermometer to-day at 11.30 a.m. is 24°, and 

 small snow falling in beautiful star-shaped crystals. 



Jan. 12. Thermometer last night down to 16°. 



