S6 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1840 



Sept. 29, Spent the morning in the rooms of the Botanical 

 Society. Dined with Dr. Greville. 



Sept. 30. At work in the botanical room. Supper at Edward 

 Forbes', 21, Lothian Street. 



Oct. 1. Dined with Balfour. 



Oct. 2. Supper at Dr. A. D. Maclagan's. 



Oct. 3. Went to the Zoological Gardens, and walked to New- 

 haven and Granton. Fish dinner at Newhaven. 



Oct. 4. Sunday. After church walked with Campbell to Leith. 



Oct. 5. Spent the morning in the Botanical Garden with Pro- 

 fessor Link of Berlin, and Dr. F. J. Klotzsch of the same place. 

 Dined with Mr. Lizars, the engraver, to meet Sir W. Jardine. 



Oct. 6. Dined with Balfour, to meet Link and Klotzsch. 



Oct. 7. Breakfasted with Greville. 



Oct. 9. Dined with James Wilson. 



Testimonial given to J. H. Balfoue, M.D. 



" Learning that Dr. J. H. Balfour is a candidate for the Professorship of 

 Botany in the University of Glasgow, about to be vacated by Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, it gives me great pleasure to be enabled to express my very 

 high opinion of bis scientific attainments, and to declare that I am 

 fully convinced that it would be difficult to find a better successor to 

 the above distinguished Botanist. — C. C. B." 



[^Note. — He was elected in May, 1841.] 



Oct. 12. Left Edinburgh by the Dumfries mail for Sir W. 

 Jardine's. The ride is a beautiful one, and amongst other places 

 we passed the spot mentioned by Scott in " Redgauntlet " as the 

 site of the escape of some of his characters. 



Oct. 16. Lankester and I went to Lochmaben. The castle is 

 very remarkable for its immensely thick walls and fine situation. 



Oct. 20. Went to dine at Mr. Younger's, of Craigielands, near 

 Beattock. We walked up a beautiful ravine, down which a brook 

 flows from near to Auchen Castle, and visited the castle itself, which 

 is quite a ruin. 



Oct. 21. After sleeping at Mr. Younger's, we went to the 

 mineral spring at Moffat, and in the ravine below it examined the 

 junction of the New Red-sand with the whinstone of the country, 

 the latter possibly representing the Old Red-sand formation. 



Oct. 22. Intended to have left Jardine Hall, but could not get 

 places. 



Oct. 23. Left by the Carlisle mail at 3 p.m., and proceeding by 

 railroad, reached London at 1.15 p.m. the next day. 



Oct. 24. Arrived at Cambridge in the evening. 



