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and the glaze upon it was of great polish and beauty. Another piece of rougher 
pottery formed part of a mortar, or mortariwm, having on its inner surface a great 
number of very small fragments of hard pebbles which were usually embedded in 
the clay before burning and roughened the surface so as to facilitate the grinding 
down of such articles as required to be rubbed with the pestle. A small coin was 
also picked up, but too corroded to decipher. A piece of a heavy white looking 
object the President’s knife soon proved to be lead ; and a small square of quartz 
looked very like a tessera, if it was not one. The Samian ware, and also the piece 
of the mortariwm, will be added to the museum at the Free Library, with the date 
attached in memory of the Club’s visit. 
On reaching Hereford the usual meeting of the members took place to elect 
the officers for the ensuing year. George H. Piper, Esq., F.G.S., Ledbury, was 
chosen as President for 1883 ; to be supported by the following gentlemen as Vice- 
Presidents :—Messrs. T. Blashill, Joseph Carless, T. C. Paris, and the Rev. E. J. 
Holloway. 
The dinner took place at the Green Dragon Hotel, when nearly 60 gentlemen 
and ladies had the pleasure of tasting that delicious agaric Agaricus Clitocybe 
nebularis, and some few also enjoyed Hydnum repandum, the mycological oyster, 
served in white sauce. 
After dinner, a paper on ‘‘ Puff-balls,” teeming with wit and humour, my- 
cological, political, and personal, was read by Dr. Cooke, and another on the 
‘Raptores of Breconshire,” by Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips. 
A reception was held in the evening at the house of Mr. Cam, in St. Owen’s 
Street. The domestic altar described in Dr. Bull’s paper was examined with 
very great interest, and during the evening several papers of great mycological 
interest were read and discussed. Mr. Blashill, the President, introduced a series 
of enlarged Microscopic Drawings by Miss Florence M. Reid, and made some re- 
marks on the improved method of teaching in the public schools, which was coming 
into practice. He thought small museums of specimens would soon be required 
in all schools, and thus the teaching be rendered at once more practical, more in- 
teresting, and more effective. The President also exhibited some very beautiful 
drawings from the microscope, of the eggs of the parasites of birds, enlarged from 
90 to 120 times. The great beauty and interest of these drawings must be seen to 
be appreciated. That so much variety should exist in such apparently similar 
objects, hidden from human sight, without the aid of powerful instruments ; and 
that the higher they are magnified the more beautiful they become, can only sug- 
gest the thoughtful lines of George Herbert :— 
‘*Thou art in small things great, not small in any ; 
Thy even praise can neither rise nor fall. 
Thou art in all things one, in each thing many, 
For Thou art infinite in one and all.” 
