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April 5. Left Bath. Dined at the Linnean Club to meet Jussieu 

 and Kichard, the French botanists. Professor Royle informed me 

 that the King's College Professors had determined not to make 

 any recommendation of a person to fill the Chair of Botany for the 

 present, and that he was going to lecture this year. 



April 6. Called upon Professor Budd, of King's College. Dined 

 with Royle, and went to the Geological, where a very interesting 

 discussion occurred between Dr. Grant and Mr. Owen. 



April 7. Royle introduced me to Professor Daniell, of King's 

 College, and also to the Principal of the College, Mr. Lonsdale. 

 Returned to Cambridge. 



April 11. Dined with F. J. Gunning to meet Mr. Morgan John 

 O'Connell. 



April 12. Dined with Arlett of Pembroke to meet the same. 



April 26. Wrote to Dr. Royle to decline becoming a candidate 

 for the Botanical Chair at King's College. 



May 4. Dined with Sedgwick to meet the Ray Club. 



May 13. Went to Ely to dine with the Dean, as President of 

 the Philosophical Society, and slept at the Deanery. 



May 17. Set Henslow's botanical paper to the medical candidates 

 in the Arts School : only three candidates ! Commenced my duties 

 as Local Treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science at Cambridge. 



May 28. Went to London, and spent the following three days 

 at Mr. Edward Forster's, at Woodford. 



May 30. Went with a party of the Linnean Club by Brighton 

 railway to Redhill, and then walked to the chalk hills above Reigate, 

 and saw the cave in the Castle Hill said to have been used as a 

 place for consultation by the Barons, in King John's time. We 

 saw but few plants, and none of much interest. Returned in the 

 evening. 



May 31. Mr. Brown, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. H. Solly, and Mr. 

 Bennett dined at Mr. Forster's. 



June 1, Returned to Cambridge. 



June 8. Went to Hitcham. 



June 9. Henslow and I went to Hadleigh. A remarkably 

 handsome church and parsonage. 



June 10. Found Myosotis sylvatica in plenty in Hitcham wood, 

 with peculiarly large flowers. 



June 11. Went to Ipswich to meet Holmes, and then with him 

 by coach to St. Margarets. 



June 14. We went to Aldeburgh in a gig, and were so unfortu- 

 nate as to be upset by a horse-hoe, of Mr. Garrett's, running upon 



