78 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1838—39 



Oct. 18. Went to the Dundas Aqueduct and Midford Castle in 

 search after RuU. 



Oct 22. Left Bath, and travelled from Maidenhead by the 

 Great Western Eailway. 



Oct. 23. In London ; saw Professor Don, etc., at the Adelaide 

 Gallery ; met Mr. W. W. Sanders, who promised me a free admission 

 to that Institution. He introduced me to Mr. Bradley, their head 

 man, and brother-in-law to the Rev. M. Berkeley. Reached Cam- 

 bridge in the evening. 



Nov. 17. Annual Dinner of the Philosophical Society. This 

 evening I introduced the subject of *' Transportation " and " Peni- 

 tentaries " to the " Hendeka." 



N<yv. 18. Went with Bullock to Great Wilbraham, where he 

 did the duty ; afterwards we went to Mr. Teverson's house to tea, etc. 



Dec. 5. Meeting of the Ray Club at my rooms. 



Dec. 6. Lukis and I went to the Gogs to examine a tumulus in 

 Lord Godolphin's plantation. It is a very large one. We returned 

 by the Roman Road and Cherry Hinton, and amused ourselves with 

 hunting for fossils in the heaps of flints. 



Dee. 25. Went to Dr. Jermyn's at Long Stanton to spend the 

 Christmas Day, and returned the next day. 



1839. Jan. 5. Went to Henfield to Mr. Borrer's, by way of 

 Dorking and Horsham. 



Jan. 7. Determined a number of Buhi for my Supplement to 

 the " Flora Bathoniensis " and " Primitiae Florae Sarnicae." 



Jan. 18. Left Henfield. Mr. Borrer conveyed me as far as 

 Lewes, where we called on Mr. Woods, and then Lingwood took 

 me on to his house at Frarafield. Ball was visiting him. 



Jan. 19. Cambridge Degree Day. Ball would have taken his 

 degree, if a Protestant. 



Jan. 26. Went to the station of Isnardia, near Buxted. 



Jan. 30. Went to Maresfield ; and passing Woods' Nursery, 

 turned down at the first gate, following the path as far as the 

 brook, then crossing a foot-bridge, and turning to the right, at 

 about fifty yards, we found Stellaria umhrosa on steep banks near 

 the brook ; came back through the woods and by Buxted. 



Feb. 6. I returned to Cambridge. 



Feb. 25. Entered Churchill Babington at St. John's College, 

 under the Rev. John Hymers. 



April 3. Put my " Primitiae Florae Sarnicae " in the hands of 

 Messrs. Metcalfe and Palmer to print; it extends to ninety-three 

 foolscap pages of manuscript. 



