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nearly opposite to the Hills' Farm. Saw plenty of OrcJiis ustulata 

 and Astragalus hypoglottis, also saw the Senecio campestris in flower. 



" St. John's College, Cambridge, 



"Jfay Uth, 1861. 



" Sir, — I beg leave to announce myself as a candidate for the Professorship 

 of Botany, which is now vacant, and venture to hope for your favourable 

 consideration, chiefly on account of my having made that science an especial 

 subject of study during the most part of my long residence in the University. 

 I strongly feel the inferiority of my qualifications when compared with those 

 of my deeply lamented friend. Professor Henslow, who possessed in a pre- 

 eminent degree the power of teaching the science and of creating a permanent 

 interest in it amongst his hearers. Should I have the honour to be appointed 

 the successor of so eminent a man, it will be my constant endeavour to fulfil 

 the duties of the office in as efficient a manner as possible. — I have the honour 

 to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, Chaeles C. Babington, M.A." 



June 12. Elected Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Cambridge. No opposition. Admitted the same day by Mr. 

 Neville, Master of Magdalene College, Vice-Chancellor. 



June 18. Went through London, direct to Marlborough College, 

 to help Mr. T. A. Preston in the determination of a Botanical Prize. 

 Was lodged in the new building, called the Sanatorium; breakfasting 

 and dining in the Common Eoom with the Masters of the College. 



June 19. Walked to Mildenhall, and some woods beyond that 

 place, where the Polygonatum muitiflorum is abundant. 



June 20. To the forest, and over fields to the west of it. 



June 22. Went to Collingbourne Ducis, to visit Rev. W. C. 

 Lukis. 



June 24. Went to the barrows, which Lukis is examining, 

 above the road from Everley to Ludgershall. 



J'lme 25. Went again to the same barrows, and examined a 

 possible British settlement on the slope of the hill, just under 

 Sidbury Hill Camp. 



June 27. To London. Went at night to London Bridge to see 

 the great fire. 



June 28. Council Meeting of British Association. Returned to 

 Cambridge. 



July 4. Went with Stratton by rail to Whittlesford. Found 

 in the gravel pit to the west of the station Tragopogon pratensis, for 

 the first time in the county. Went along the Royston road to the 

 toll-gate, then turned off, and followed the hedge-row to a pond 

 above the Little Nine Wells, in which Scirpus lacustris grows ; then 

 by Great Nine Wells, and for some distance down the water, then 

 across the fields to the road, and home by Newton and Trumpington. 



July 24. To Peterborough, for the Archaeological Institute 

 Meeting. 



