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Most of the former were worthless, from damp, and so were 

 destroyed — some I was given. Of the books, I was given Curtis' 

 «F1. Londin." the old edition, and Bolton's "Ferns." 



Jan. 18. To London with Astley and'T. Gisborne. 



Jan. 19. Linnean. 



Jan. 20. To Henfield, and back on 23rd, and to Cambridge. 



Feb. 18. To Ely and back with J. J. Smith and W. H. Stokes, 

 with the intention of going to Haddenham, but we found that 

 Mr. Banks was from home. 



April 6. Went from the Linnean Meeting with Dr. J. D. 

 Hooker to Kew to examine plants. 



April 7. Eeturned to London and Cambridge. 



May 20. Botanical party to Gamlingay. 



May 24. Attended the Linnean Anniversary Dinner. 



May 28. Newbould, Townsend, and I went to Whittlesford by 

 rail ; walked to Triplow Heath (now under corn, and therefore 

 spoiled for botany), to Foulmire, Triplow, Newton, Shelford, and 

 home by rail. In a thicket at Triplow we found Lonicera caprifolium 

 in plenty. 



Jibne 7. Newbould, Townsend, and I went to Yarmouth. We 

 botanized that afternoon upon the Denes. To the south we got 



Trifolium suffocatum, Cerastium atrovirens, etc. 



June 8. We went to Burgh Castle by the footway, and then 

 along the marshes to Belton Fen, and the village of Belton. Near 

 Burgh Castle we got Alopecimis hulbosus. In Belton Fen Stellaria 



glauca. * 



June 23. Went to Oxford by the express train. British 

 Association. Had rooms in Christ Church. The "Red Lions" 

 •established themselves at the "King's Arms." 



June 26. Went with Wollaston, Newbould, and Lankester to 

 Pangbourne. We botanized on the hills to the north-west of Pang- 

 bourne all the afternoon. Here I first saw Iheris amara in a wild 

 state. In a brook that supplies the mill at Pangbourne, at some 

 little distance from the village, where it is very swift, we found 

 true Ranunculus aquatilis, much lengthened out, but not at all 

 changed towards R. fluitans. 



June 27. We crossed the river to Whitchurch, and then passing 

 behind the Hall, on the way towards Goring, we burned up the hill 

 over the fields, and found in a wood a large quantity of Melampyrum 

 pratense latifolium. We then descended the hill through the woods 

 towards the Goring path, and on the grassy slopes under the belts 

 of wood we found a moderate quantity of Orchis militaris. Crossing 



