98 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1841 



March 27. Met Kothery in the street. Left London at 2 p.m. 

 by railway, and reached Wootton Bassett at 5, and Bath by coach 

 at 9.30. 



Testimonial to Edwabd Foebes. 

 " Believing, as I do, that the Professorship of Natural History in the 

 University of Aberdeen could not be held by a person better qualified 

 to fulfil its duties with honour to himself and advantage to the Univer- 

 sity than Mr. Edward Forbes, it gives me great pleasure to testify to 

 his high scientific attainments, and to his enthusiastic and successful 

 pursuit of Natural History, and to recommend his appointment to that 

 distinguished oflSice. — C. C. B." 

 [Note. — He was too late in his application]. 



March 30. Attended the wedding of Miss F. Bates and Thomas 

 Pycroft, at St. Saviour's Church. Mrs. Bates afterwards gave a 

 breakfast to a very large party, and Mr. Pycroft the elder gave a 

 large dinner party. 



April 12. Went with T. Fortune to Bristol, and examined the 

 large iron steam vessel now building by the Great Western Steam 

 Ship Co., and also the fine machinery for the manufacture of its 

 engines, etc. The vessel is to be worked by means of the " Archi- 

 medean Screw." Afterwards we went to look at the progress which 

 had been made in the Clifton Suspension Bridge. At this time the 

 piers upon both sides are complete. 



April 15. Mr. Haslam and I walked to Wyck, examining by 

 the way the Hanham (?) rocks for Gagea lutea, but could not find it. 

 Dined with a party at my uncle's, Dr. Whitter's. 



April 16. To-day we walked to Warleigh, where we found by 

 the footpath some peculiarly fine Morels, and then along the top of 

 Farleigh Hill to Bathford, and home. 



April 17. We walked to Ashley Wood, and found Lathraea 

 squamaria in plenty, and South Wraxhall — Wraxhall Hall is fast 

 going to decay — returning by Monckton Farleigh. My aunt had a 

 party to meet the Haslams this evening. 



April 20. Horticultural Show in the Botanical Garden at the Park. 



April 21. Haslam and I walked over Charmy Down to the 

 upper end of St. Catherine's Valley, and found great plenty of 

 Hellehorus foetidus and one plant of Doronicum Pardalianches, the 

 latter not yet in flower ; returned by Batheaston, after inspecting 

 the fine old house at St. Catherine's. Dined with Haslam. 



April 22. We walked to-day over Claverton Down to the 

 Aqueduct, and along the valley to Midford Castle, then by Coombe 

 Down home. Dined with Dr. Totty. 



April 23. Attended a meeting of the members of the Bath 

 Horticultural and Botanical Society to pass some new laws, and 

 was one of a committee for the revival of some of them. Dined 

 with Dr. R. W. Falconer. 



