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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
(2.) Cryptogamia. 
Fern sporangia. 1, 3, 6, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22. 
Mosses. 
Hypnum intermedium .<? (fairly common). 
H. RichardsoniS’ 
H. giganteum. ? loc. 
Hypnum sp. 4, 10, ii, 13, 14, 15, 17. 
Sphagnum sp. 3, 6, 9. 
Fungi. 
Teleutospores. 1, 9. 
Characeae. 
Nitella translucens (probably). 5. 
The fruit was examined and named by Mr. James Groves, F.L.S., 
who says “ A T . translucens is a Western European species, and 
is fairly common in our South Eastern Counties.” 
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF 
MEETINGS. 
VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE (515th MEETING). 
April ist to April 5x11,' 1920. 
An excursion of five days’ duration to Cambridge was arranged for 
Easter at somewhat short notice, and a small but enthusiastic party of 
members availed themselves of the opportunity of making or renewing 
acquaintance with the venerable University town, with its multitudinous 
objects of interest. 
By one or other of the crowded holiday trains on the evening of Thurs¬ 
day, ist April, the members of the party reached Cambridge, and by 11 p.m. 
were safely gathered in to the Headquarters, the non-collegiate hostel, 
Fitzwilliam Hall, in Trumpington Street. 
On Good Friday morning the official programme of visits was fittingly 
inaugurated by a pilgrimage to No. 22, Fitzwilliam Street, where a stone, 
built in the front wall, informed us that 
CHARLES DARWIN 
LIVED HERE 
1836—7. 
that is to say, on his return from his voyage in the ” Beagle.” 
Francis Darwin tells us, in his Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , 
1887, that his father settled at Cambridge on Dec. 10, 1836. “ He was at 
first a guest in the comfortable home of the Henslows, but afterwards, for 
the sake of undisturbed work, he moved into lodgings.” Charles Darwin 
himself records that he settled in lodgings at Cambridge [in Fitzwilliam 
Street] on December 13th, and stayed there three months. He employed 
his time in looking over the geological specimens which he had collected 
during his voyage, and it was in this house that he began to prepare his 
Journal of Researches. On March 6, 1837, Darwin left Cambridge 
for London, where he went into lodgings at 36, Great Marlborough Street. 
