172 CHAELES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1853-54 



Oct. 13. To Orcop Hill. 



Oct. 14. In the carriage to Kilpeck Church, which has been 

 recently and nicely restored. 



Oct. 18. To Bath. 



Oct. 20. Walked along the canal by Hampton and Claverton^ 

 past the Aqueduct to Brass Knocker Hill, then by Coombe Down 

 and Prior Park. Explored the valley behind the Old Widcombe 

 Church. Failed in finding any fruit of either Fotamogeton flabellatus 

 or Sparganium, owing to the weeds having been removed from the 

 canal. 



Oct. 21. Spent the morning with the Fowlers. 



Oct. 22. Returned to Cambridge. 



Dec. 29. Thermometer at 5° last night. The river frozen over. 



1854. Jan. 2. Thermometer 5° at the New Botanical Garden 

 in the past night. 



Jan. 3, 4. The snow was so deep as quite to put a stop to all 

 communication with London on these days. 



March 6. Elected a member of the Athenaeum Club in London. 



April 7. Overton, Hiley, and I went to the Gogs. We saw 

 Anemone Pulsatilla in full flower, but nothing besides it. The season 

 had been remarkably dry. 



May 20. Went with a small party, Sprague, Stuart, Garland, 

 and others to Dullingham, Wood Ditton, Saxon Street, and New- 

 market to botanize. No plants of much interest found. 



May 31. Went with Henslow and his class to Ely by the rail. 

 Mr. W. Marshall met us, and conducted us by the lane to the outlet 

 of Rossall Pits. There we obtained a barge and navigated the pits 

 in all directions, finding many interesting aquatic plants. Fota- 

 mogeton praelongus was growing in the pit in small quantity. We 

 then went to Turbotsey, and gathered Ophioglossum in the meadows. 

 Returned to Ely by the road above the Chalk Pits. Dined at the 

 "Lamb." Afterwards visited the Cathedral, and went back to 

 Cambridge. 



J^me 5. Went by rail to Meldreth, and walked by way of 

 Whaddon to the "Hardwicke Arms" at Arrington, where Newbould 

 met me. Walked by Arrington, Croydon, Clapton, to near Tadlow 

 Tower ; returning by the " Downing Arms," by footpath to Clapton, 

 up Croydon Hill to the Upper Hamlet, to the church, and back to 

 " Hardwicke Arms." 



June 6. Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club. No member arriving 

 to join us at an hour after the time fixed, we went through Wim- 

 pole Park, and to the Mare Way, on the Eversden Path, then to 

 Eversden Wood, Great Eversden Manor House, by footpath to Little 



