250 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
(2.) Cryptogamia.
Fern sporangia. 1, 3, 6, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22.
Mosses.
Hypnum intermedium.6 (fairly common).
H. Richardsoni.6
H. giganteum. ? loc.
Hypnum sp. 4, 10, 11, 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 "N. 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 5th, 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, 1st 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.