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CHAPTER X. 



A NEW ORNITHOLOGICAL FRIENDSHIP. 



[1855-] 



AFTER eighteen months' relaxation from University work, 

 his health seemed so far improved that, on January i2th, 

 he returned to Cambridge to keep his ninth Term, but 

 "spent nearly the whole time under aegrotate." "On the 

 whole," he writes, "did not find many of the old acquaint- 

 ance, and from my retired mode of aegerizing, not much 

 chance of making more." " Spent several mornings most 

 pleasantly with Babington, whom I find kinder than ever ; 

 so extremely considerate and good-natured that it is 

 impossible not to like him. From him I derived much 

 assistance in my Paper on Castle Taylor plants, as well as 

 from W. W. N.,* who often favoured me with his com- 

 pany. Godmanf very good-natured to me, &c. At end 

 H. Evans, nowise altered, paid me a visit of a few days . . . 

 And not least, made friends with Edward Newton,* one 

 of the Elveden ornithologists." 



On the ist of March he returned to Ryde, and from this 

 date did not again see Cambridge for nearly eight years. 



The "Essay on the Flora of Castle Taylor" was now 

 finished. The utmost pains had been expended on the 

 preparation of this, his first botanical Paper, and, as has 

 been seen, the assistance of Mr. Babington and of 

 Mr. Newbould had been freely given in the analysis and 

 arrangement of the materials. On April i2th, it was read 

 at the meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 

 whose Proceedings were at that time published monthly 

 in " The Scottish Gardener," and the article, consequently, 

 first appeared in print in the May number (pp. 234-8) of 

 that Magazine. 



* Mr. Newbould. f Mr. F. D. Godman, the ornithologist. 



J The late Sir Edward Newton. 



