138 ROBERT POCOCK. 



plants. Found there a bee orchis, but not in bloom. 

 Anthropophora in bloom nearly out. 



" Wednesday, 6th. Got orchises from Northfleet 

 Cliffs for Mr. Neil of Edinburgh. 



" Friday, 7th. Put orchis roots on board the Forth, 

 Captain Stuart, for Leith, this morning about five 

 o'clock, for Mr. P. Neil, Secretary to the Wernerian 

 Society. My daughter Mary returned to Woolwich. 

 Went over to Dartford to Mr. Brewer. 



" Saturday, 8th. Mr. Peen said he went yesterday to 

 Wanstead in Essex, to see the house and gardens, and 

 near 4000 persons there to see this fine place, now put 

 up for sale, by thirty days' sale. The catalogues were 

 sold at five shillings each, which admitted three persons 

 to view the first ten days' sale, and again the same for 

 the second and third divisions. [Wellesley Pole.] 



"Tuesday, \\th. Busy all day in ' setting ' Mr. 

 Tolhurst's bill for leaving the Prince Regent. 

 Heard at night, at eleven o'clock, the death watch for 

 the first time this year. A county meeting held this 

 day at Maidstone for a Parliamentary Reform. 



"Friday, I&h. Heard Samuel Johnson, an old 

 shoemaker, was dead. Went to Gravesend Church 

 and stood godfather to my daughter Elizabeth's (Mrs. 

 Jones') child, by naming it Shadrach Edward Robert. 

 The curate's name I understood was Owen, but I had 

 never seen him before. The child's name was to please 

 all parties : first Shadrach, because my grandfather 

 Pocock's name was such, and also my eldest son, now 

 settled at Coal Pit Bank, Ketley, Salop. The second 

 name was to please the family of Jones, and the third 

 name is my own. Bought some skeletons and medical 

 book and plants. 



