152 CHARLES CARD ALE BABINGTON. [1849—60 



Sept. 20. To Lyston to spend a few days with Lingwood. 



Sept 22. To Hereford, and saw the works at the Cathedral. 



Sept. 24. Spent some time in the examination of the Church of 

 Llanwarne, and the contents of the parish chest in it. Found in it 

 the bill for casting the bells 200 years since ; also imperfect copies 

 of the works of Jewell and Erasmus, in black letter. 



Sept. 25. To Orcop Church. Small, and rather curious. Old 

 oak seats. Old timber upper part of tower. Also to St. Weonards, 

 a fine restored church. 



Sept. 26. With the Rev. Mr. White and Vernon to Pencoyd and 

 Hentland ; near the former an old moated house with vaulted cellars^ 

 with an armed stone figure in them. Hentland Church is being well 

 restored. 



Sept. 27. With the same to Garway Church, and the Pigeon 

 House of the Knights of St. John {see the " Archaeologia "). Then 

 over the top of Garway Hill, a splendid view from it, and back along 

 the tops of the hills. 



Sept. 28. To Ewyas Harold and Rowlstone to see the church. 

 It has a singular Norman chancel arch, with a beautiful carving on 

 the side of each of its capitals of two figures, one Avinged and holding 

 a cross in one hand, and a book in the other ; and the other a 

 pilgrim perhaps ; on the south side the figures are placed (originally) 

 on their heads. Also to Abbey Dore, where the transepts and choir 

 of a fine monastic church are in good preservation. 



Oct. 5. To Cambridge again. 



Dec. 6. Meeting at my rooms to confirm the rules and elections 

 and fix the meetings of the Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club for 

 1849. We dined at the "Red Lion." 



1850. April 2. To London to the Linnean Meeting. Visited 

 the Exhibition of Mediaeval Art at the Society of Arts. 



April 3. Spent some part of the morning at the same exhibition. 

 In the evening went to Bath. 



April 5. Walked with Hort, who was visiting Bath, to the 

 station for EuphorUa palustris. Over Coombe Down to the mill 

 below Midford Castle, along the canal by the Dundas Aqueduct, 

 over the river at Warleigh, by Bathford and Batheaston, behind 

 Little Salisbury Hill to Bath. 



Apiil 8. Went with Hort to visit C. E. Broome at Batheaston. 

 We then walked up the Rocks Valley. Hort left us, and I dined 

 with Broome, and back to Bath in the evening. Met a Mr. Walton, 

 of Grosvenor Place, Bath, a geologist. 



April 9. Hort, Broome, and I crossed Lansdown to a spot of 

 limestone west of Tracy Park, where we found Gagea lutea in flower. 



