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private morality.” It was signed by C. C. Babington, 
J. S. Henslow, G. B. Airy, Adam Sedgwick, and other well- 
known men. 
‘1837. Dec. 7. Ata meeting of the Society for Protecting 
the Independence of the Town, I obtained a petition to be ordered 
from this town in favour of Irish Corporation Reform 
The Journal is prefaced by a photograph of Bubisotsa at the 
age of 17, and opens with his own statement concerning his 
birth, parentage, and schooldays. He first reached Cambridge 
by coach on the evening of 1oth October 1826. In 1827 we find 
the entries ‘April 30. Went to Prof. Henslow’s first lecture on - 
botany. May 2. Conversed with him after the botanical lecture, 
and was asked to his house.’ On that day his frame of mind 
was admirable, for he ‘put an end to the Phrenological Society 
this evening.’ The first entry of any particular plant is on 23rd 
June of the same year—-Ophrys apifera on Culver Cliffs, Isle of 
Wight. The Journal contains much that is of interest to field- 
botanists; there are accounts of rambles in all parts of the 
British Isles, in the Channel Islands, and in Iceland. In many 
cases, however, they are merely topographical, and one cannot 
help thinking that a large number are included quite un- 
necessarily ; for example, it is impossible to see what purpose 
has been served by the printing of at least half the entries on 
Ppp. 202-7, or of any of those on p. 99. Again, a protest must 
be recorded against the admission to the diary, unaccompanied 
by any note of caution, of some doubtful records. For instance, 
under 31st July 1835, we read ‘To Beddgelert. Ascended Dinas 
Emrys, found on it Eriophorum gracile and Carum verticillatum 
in plenty.’ It is certain that the former was not what we now 
mean by &. gracile, and it would have been well if the name had 
been queried as on p. 55. There are rather too many misprints 
among the botanical names, and the English ones are often 
italicized like the Latin. Very readable are the accounts of 
the late Professor’s meetings with and rambles in company of 
Hooker, Borrer, Henslow, Newbould, Agardh, the Backhouses, 
Ball, Berkeley, James Sowerby, Graham, Balfour, Mackay, 
Greville, and others equally well known. 
The Botanical Correspondence forms the really valuable part 
of the book, and is full of interest and information. The first 
letter (from St. John’s College, Cambridge) is dated 24th 
November 1834, and addressed to [Sir] W. J. Hooker ; the last 
(from Cotherstone, Teesdale) is dated 23rd July 1894, ave 
addressed to I. H. Bsr dent Esq. (of Caius College, who has 
June 1898. 
