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affected my limbs and spirits. Club articles taken 

 away. A shrimp with fourteen legs brought me. 



" Friday, June 26th. Sent a letter to my son in 

 Shropshire, describing the fossils he sent me lately. 

 Much rain in the evening. 



" Sunday, June 28th. Cold and windy. Walked up 

 with Mr. Grafter to Clarke's garden in the evening. 

 Heard he meant to show his seedling pink next 

 Wednesday at the Old Prince of Orange against Mr. 

 Collier of Stanstead. 



" Tuesday, June 30 */&.- Went with Mrs. P. to 

 Swanscombe and carried there to Esq. Russel that 

 scarce plant, the lizard orchis, and chlora perfoliata or 

 yellow wort. Walked in his garden and found him well 

 skilled in botany, with a retentive memory ; his garden 

 having above a thousand plants in it. Found him 

 acquainted with two botanists near London (Mr. Evans 

 of Hackney and another) and that he had corresponded 

 with Mr Down of Cambridge. Met at Swanscombe 

 Mr. Fenwick, jun., of Greenwich, who I thought had 

 been drowned. 



" This day I caught a small long-bodied fly, or more 

 properly a beetle, on the flower of a bramble in the 

 chalk cliffs. 



" Heard six people out of eleven were drowned in a 

 sailing-boat off Purfleet mostly publicans of London. 



" Wednesday, July 1st. Got some bee orchis and 

 chlora perfoliata in Northfleet Cliffs. This day suits 

 well to get ' eye bright ' to set in a pot of sifted chalk 

 rubbish. Flower feast at Old Prince of Orange, when 

 Collier gained the prize for best seedling pink called 

 ' Collier's Kentish Hero/ 



" Thursday, July 2nd. Rainy. Sent a dozen of news- 



