70 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1838 



Jan. 17. Lingwood and I went to Cambridge. 



Jan. 18. Thermometer 9° in the night. 



Jan. 20. Degree day. Thomas Lingwood took his degree. 



Jan. 21. Sunday. Thermometer in night at 8°. 



Feb. 5. The frost has continued since the 2nd of January, and 

 the Cam was frozen over when I returned. It was cleared of ice 

 on the 9th of February. 



Feb. 15. Dined with the Vice-Chancellor, Worsley of Downing 

 College. 



Feb. 17. (On Feb. 10) I introduced the question of the Ballot 

 to the "Hendeka," and the debate was adjourned to the next 

 Saturday, 17th, and then carried in the affirmative. 



March 1. At an evening party at Professor Clark's. 



March 7. The Ray Club met at my rooms ; there was a full 

 meeting, although all the members did not attend. About twenty- 

 one persons, including Sedgwick and Miller. 



March 16. Whig Dinner at the Bull Inn. Eighteen present, 

 including Sedgwick, Smart Hughes, etc. 



March 28. Smith of Caius and I went to see the Old Chapel 

 near the Paper Mill Turnpike Gate. It has been used at some 

 former time as a house, and floors have been put in, most of which 

 have now given way. There are several interesting remains of 

 Norman architecture still remaining in it. 



March 29. Went to Mr. E. Forster's at Woodford. 



March 31. Mr. Forster and I went to Loridge's Nursery at 

 Hackney, and saw his fine houses, and also his collection of humming 

 birds. He has 170 species, of which 60 are in no other collection. 



April 2. Went to Mr. Evans, M.P., at Park House, Kensington 

 Gore. Churchill Babington and I went to the Linnean Museum, 

 and to a meeting of the Entomological Society in the evening. 



April 5. Churchill and I went to Mr. Hope's, and I compared 

 my collection of Darwin's Dytiscidae with his cabinet. 



April 6. I went to West wood's to get him to make drawings 

 of my three new genera of Dytiscidae from America. 



April 7. Left London, and arrived at Lingwood's in Sussex. 



April 9. Went into Buxted Park, and gathered a few Lichens 

 for Churchill Babington. 



April 14. Went to Walrond Down, and found a small fish 

 called Petromyzon Planeri. 



April 20. Left Lingwood's. 



April 21. Reached Mr. Borrer's before breakfast. 



