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had to descend with some trouble over the remains of an ancient 



landslip), then along the rough shingles as far nearly as Glenthorn, 

 then up through the wood and fields to the turnpike road. A little 

 to the east of G-lenthorn, and above the wood, was the only real cliflF 

 that we saw in that district. It seemed as if the front of the hill 

 had fallen forwards and left a deep rocky hollow behind it. We 

 returned down the old road from the hill, and found it scarcely 

 passable. 



July 5. Along the hill-top and down to Oare, up that valley to 

 its head, and back over Lucott Hill. In the Oare Valley, found 

 Myriophyllum alterniflorum. On Lucott Hill, Puinuncvlus Lenwrnandi ; 

 also found a circle of stones in a pretty perfect state. Rossington 

 Beacon is a half-circle of stones, arranged pretty regularly, and 

 inclosing a semi-circular space bounded by a perpendicular wall. 



July 6. By Eossington, over North Hill, to Minehead and 

 Dunster. 



July 7. To London and Cambridge. 



July 25. Went by early train to Broxbourne, where Webb and 

 Coleman met me, and we went to St. Margarets and Stanstead 

 Abbotts and examined Bonnington (?) Wood, finding Eubus Bahing- 

 tonii, and many others. Then to Hertford and Essendon. 



July 26. To Millward Park Wood, calling on a Mr, Church 

 (brother-in-law to T. J. Selby), by the way. The wood is full of 

 Eubus Sprengelii and R. Giintheri and others. (N.B. — A remarkable 

 thunderstorm this day in London). 



July 27. Went by Hatfield to St. Albans, where I spent a 

 considerable time in the Abbey Church, and then returned. 



July 28. Back to Cambridge. In the evening presided at a 

 meeting for the formation of a Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club. 



Aug. 2. With Newbould to Mr. Gibson's at Saffron Walden, 

 where we met Mr. Borrer and went to Heydon, where we got many 

 plants, and back. 



Aug. 6. Went to Bottisham Fen with Hort and W. Mathews, 

 but found the country so dry that we got very little. 



Aug. 11. Hort, Mathews, and I went to Thetford by an early 

 train, and met there W. L. Hose, who came from Norwich. We 

 went to the edge of Redneck Heath, then by the rectory at Elvedon 

 to Barnham, returning to the town by the river side. 



Aug. 20. Hort, Newbould, and I went to Lynn. We followed 

 the sea-bank as far as North Wootton, finding very little. Hort 

 found in the mud Spartina strida ; he also found Atriplex deltdidea. 

 We then went to Castle Rising, where there is a most beautiful 

 Norman church, especially its west front ; also an old Norman castle 

 surrounded by enormous mounds and ditches. In one of the mounds 



