158 . CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1851 



May 7. Eeached Cambridge. 



Maij 21. Newbould and I went on my first botanical walk for 

 the season. We went by train to Chesterford, went by the possible 

 line of the Roman Way to Strethall, then by Freewood to Elmdon, 

 where we found Juniper, and visited a tumulits, and the church there 

 in the course of a complete restoration. 



May 30. Corrected the last proof sheet of the third edition of 

 my Manual. 



June 13, Went to Bottisham Fen with Stratton and Hort. 



Jime 17. To London. Zoological Society, and saw the young 

 elephant. Linnean Society in the evening. 



June 18. Spent the whole morning in the Great Exhibition in 

 Hyde Park. Dined with Lankester, and went with him to see 

 Wild's Great Globe in Leicester Square. 



June 19. Again at Exhibition. Royal Society. Admitted a 

 Fellow. 



June 20. Exhibition. Returned to Cambridge. 



June 25. With Stratton to Gogs and Cherry Hinton. Found 



Fumaria parviflora and F. Vaillantii. 



July 2. Went to Ipswich by way of Bury, to which place 

 Sedgwick, G. G. Stokes, MacCoy, and I went by coach. British 

 Association. 



July 5. Excursion to Felixstowe, and up the Woodbridge river 

 to Ramshott, to see the junction of the two strata of Crag by steamer. 

 Lankester, Huxley, Dr. Smith (author of "Class. Diet."), and I 

 landed, and slept at the Hotel at Felixstowe. 



July 6. Huxley and I walked back to Ipswich in the evening. 



July 9. To Thetford. 



July 10. Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club Meeting at Thetford. 



July 15. Went with Newbould, Wauton, and Stratton to Water- 

 beach, then walked by the river side to Upware, and along the 

 Spinny bank across the fen to a house near Wicken. Examined 

 Wicken Fen, finding Lathyrus palustris, Stratiotes, Arundo Calama- 

 grostis, Cladium, etc. Returned by the same way. 



July 16. W. Mathews and I went to Cherry Hinton, but found 

 very little in the way of plants. 



July 28. A very dark day prevented the very large eclipse of 

 the sun being seen. 



July 29. Went to London and Bristol to attend the Meeting of 

 the Archaeological Institute. 



Aug. 1. Manning and I walked to Leigh Court and back. Very 

 fine pictures there. 



