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Sept. 15. Excursion to Beverley and Flamborough Head. At 

 the former saw Crosskill's manufactory of agricultural implements. 

 . . . Also the Minster. 



Sept. 16. To York. Quartered with John Phillips, but bed at 

 Mr. Baines', in the garden of Philosophical Society. Spent the 

 morning with James Backhouse, jun., in the examination of Hieracia ; 

 also went to see his new garden. 



Sept. 17. Also with J. Backhouse, similarly employed. Dr. 

 Andrews, Mr. Thompson of Belfast, and Mr. Grove at Phillips'. 



Sept. 19. "Walked round the city with Sir W. E. Hamilton and 

 J. Phillips, and visited several of the churches. 



Sept. 20. Eeturned to Cambridge. 



Oct. 3. Newbould and I went to Wisbech. A most beautiful 

 day. We walked by the Sutton turnpike road . . . then along the 

 old drain to Foul Anchor, where we looked for the plants recorded 

 to have been formerly found there. The salt marshes have quite 

 vanished, and therefore very few of the plants remain. We saw 

 Lepigonum mariuum, Bupleurum tenuissimum, Aster tripolium, Glaux^ 

 Plantago coronopus and P. maritimus, Scirpus maritimus, Sderochloa 

 distans alone, of those recorded by Relhan. We went up the Shire 

 Drain to Tydd Gout, and returned along the line of the Roman 

 Bank by Newton to Leverington, and then to Wisbech. At both 

 Newton and Leverington we saw Althaea by the water-side plenti- 

 fully. 



Oct. 4. Day fixed for the Naturalists' Club Meeting. Only 

 W. Marshall came. Newbould and I called upon Mr. Algernon 

 Peckover, and he went with us to the museum. At noon Marshall 

 arrived, and we went along the east side of the great river for 

 one-and-a-half miles ; then turned inland, Walsoken, and reached 

 Wisbech by the Lynn turnpike road. The " sides " of the river are 

 fio much altered that most of the characteristic plants are lost. We 

 then went up the Wisbech Canal to Elm, and returned by the other 

 bank of it. Back to Cambridge. 



Oct. 7. Went to visit Lingwood at Lyston in Herefordshire. 



Oct. 8. Went to Hereford. Saw Dean Dawes, and was shewn 

 by him over the library of the Cathedral ; in a very bad state. All 

 the books fastened by chains, many apparently curious. Also 

 visited the Cathedral. 



Oct. 9. Sunday. At Llanwarne Church. 



Oct. 10. To Ross, and spent some hours with W. H. Purchas 

 in examining his plants. 



Oct. 12. Lingwood, Purchas, and I walked to Treago, and after- 

 wards to Pencoyd, where we got Aspidium spinulosum and Equisetum 

 hyemale. 



