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Sept 26. Drove to lower part of Deepdale, walked to near the 

 head of the dale, then along and over the hill to Patterdale Hotel, 

 and home. We were much pleased with the wild valley and the 

 views along the top of the mountain on our return. 



Sept. 27. By car to Penrith, and train over the high land of 

 North Yorkshire, to Durham. 



Sept. 28. At Durham. 



Sept. 29. York. 



Sept. 30. To Whitby and back. Spent most of the day there. 



Oct. 1. To Beverley and back, to see the Minster. 



Oct. 3. Cambridge. 



Nov. 7. Went out of the Council of the Senate. 



1871. April 20. Commenced lectures. 



May 23. Finished my course of twenty lectures. 



June 7. Mrs. E. Harold Browne laid the foundation-stone of 

 the Cottage Home for Little Orphan Girls. I had to address the 

 assembly on the ground. Talbot Bury (architect) came to attend. 

 All went off very nicely. £17 4s. M. was taken at the gate. We 

 had twenty-two at luncheon, and gave dinner to the St. John's 

 Chorister Jaoys. 



June 17. To lodgings at Gipsy Hill, Norwood, for the Handel 

 Festival. Mrs. Herbert and Arthur Hughes joined us. 



June 18. Sunday. Heard the Bishop of Winchester (Wilber- 

 force) preach at the church at Gipsy Hill. 



July 7. Found the Siler trilohum on the back bank of the 

 excavated part of the field to the south of the Chalk-Pit-Close at 

 Cherry Hinton. 



July 10. Dr. Trimen and Mr. W. J. Thiselton Dyer came, and 

 I went with them to Cherry Hinton to gather Siler, and also found 

 Seseli Libanotis, Bunium Bulhocastanuni, and the other usual plants 

 of that place. They left in the evening. 



July 12. Went to Tuddenham with W. Walton and Latham, of 

 Trinity Hall, and Brown, J. Mills, and Dr. White met us there. 

 The Fen is a very good place for plants — Cladium, Schoenus nigricans, 

 Epipactis palustris, Orchis latifolia, and others. On the heath near 

 the angle of a turf-wall on the way to Temple Bridge was plenty of 

 Tillaea muscosa. 



Aug. 1. To Edinburgh. Miss Selwyn and Miss Rogers lodged 

 with us for the Meeting of the British Association, and until the lith. 



Aug. 4. Dined with Dr. Christison. A. G. More was with us 

 for some of the days of the Meeting. 



Atig. 7. We drove to Craigmillar Castle. 



