198 CHARLES CARD ALE BABINGTON. [1861 



July 25. Excursion to Oakham and Stamford. 



July 27. To Thorney and Crowland. A very stormy day. A 

 tremendous hailstorm at Peakirk, which we just escaped ; hailstones 

 like hazel-nuts lay in heaps by the road-side. 



July 29. Returned to Cambridge. 



Aug. 23. To CardiflF and Merthyr Tydfil, to visit G. T. Clark, 

 at Dowlais House. 



Aug. 26. To Swansea, for the Cambrian Archaeological Meeting. 



Aug. 30. We wound up the meeting with a dinner at the house 

 of the President, Mr. Vivian. 



Aug. 31. To Shrewsbury. 



Sept. 1. Dined with Rigg at the school. Tea with Dr. Kennedy. 



Sept. 2. Rigg and I went to Uriconium. 



Sept. 3. To Manchester, to stop with James Aspinall Turner, 

 M.P., at Pendlebury House, for the meeting of the British Association. 



Sept. 4. Commencement of the meeting. I am Chairman of 

 Section D. 



Sept. 9. It was determined that we should have the meeting at 

 Cambridge in 1862. 



Sept. 12. Conclusion of the meeting yesterday. I left this 

 morning, and went to South Kilvington Rectory, near Thirsk, to 

 visit W. T. Kingsley. 



Sept. 14. Spent the evening with J. G. Baker, at Thirsk, 

 looking over his Ruhi. 



Sept. 18. By rail and omnibus to Helmsley, and walked to 

 Rievaulx Abbey. 



Sept. 20. Went to Osmotherley, the top of the hill above 

 ArnclifFe, Mount Grace (Carthusian) Priory. Lunch and tea with 

 Mr. Henry Jones, the vicar. Found Trientalis at the top of the 

 Arncliife Woods, also Vaccinium Vitis-idaea (in flower and fruit at 

 the same time). 



Sept. 21. Mr. E. B. Dennison came. We were in Thirsk 

 examining the clock and bells most of the day. 



Sept. 23. We went in a carriage to Byland Abbey, and over 

 the hill to Rievaulx Abbey, and returned by the way of the White- 

 stone-cliff hill. 



Sept. 26. Went to a small black pond, embedded in wood, near 

 Kirby Knowe, formed about sixty years since by a landslip. 



Sept. 27. Went again to Mount Grace, to examine it with more 

 care than we could do before. 



Sept. 28. Cambridge. 



