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Eversden, and to Comberton. Dined with Newbould there, and 

 walked to Cambridge in the evening. Obtained no rare plants, but 

 ■did good Avork in making lists. 



June, 7. Way and Hill with me about the Institute Meeting. 



June, 13. Went to Denver to visit W. H. Stokes. Walked to 

 Downham market. 



June 14. Stokes drove me to Nordelph, going through Down- 

 ham, then along the road by London Lode, and on as far as Welney, 

 where there is a nice new church. By the side of the London Lode 

 at one-and-a-half miles from Nordelph, I saw traces of the Roman 

 Fen Way marked by the yellow colour of the crop ; and in the next 

 field (pasture) by a well-marked ridge about fifty-two feet wide, with 

 a depression upon each side. We returned by the same lode. An 

 old man working at the drain opposite to where I saw the last part 

 of the road, said that he remembered hearing of a gravel road on 

 that site many years since, and that it was not the former track by 

 London Lode. To the south of the angle in the lane leading towards 

 the south from Stone Cross, there seems to have been an old lane, 

 and a rather raised ridge on one side of it. It extends into Riston 

 Park for some distance, in the probable course of the Akeman 

 Street. 



June 15. Went to Denver Common (by the road to the railway) 

 and gathered the supposed new BatracMum, also Ranunculus hirsutus. 



June 17. Returned to Cambridge. 



July 4. Commencement of the Meeting of the Archaeological 

 Institute at Cambridge. 



July 7. Excursion to Bury St. Edmunds by railway. I addressed 

 a few words to the party from the bank of the Devil's Ditch. From 

 Bury we visited Hengrave Hall and Little Saxham Church, having 

 missed by a blunder two other places laid down in the plan of the 

 trip. 



July 8. Excursion to Audley End and Saffron Walden by rail- 

 way and back. Dined with a large party at the Lodge of Jesus 

 College. This morning I addressed the Section of Antiquities for 

 forty-five minutes about the Fens and other parts of the county in 

 ancient times. 



July 10. Excursion to Ely. Lunch at the Deanery. E. Sharp 

 described the Cathedral. Dined with W. Marshall. 



July 18. Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club. Messrs. Gibson and 

 Clarke met me. Examined Doddington Wood, passed through that 

 place to the Turf Fen, which was very dry, and so not productive. 

 Went up Vermuden's Drain to the first cottages, and down to 

 Twenty Foot, going by it to Chatteris. 



