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At the Park gates the party took leave of Mr. Radcliffe and resumed their 

 conveyances to Hereford, reaching the Mitre Hotel, the scene selected for the 

 very necessary operation of dining, shortly before 5 p.m. Here they partook 

 of an excellent dinner under the Presidency of Mr. C. Lingen, President of the Club, 

 Mr. J. A. Suter, Hon. Secretary, occupying the Vice-chair. Grace before and 

 after dimier was said by the Rev. Mr. Bulmer. The only toast drunk was the 

 health of " the Queen and the Prince Consort," whose patronage of science was 

 neatly referred to by the Chairman. The meeting then proceeded to transact 

 the business of the Club. 



The list of ordinary members was stated to be full. The subject of extending 

 the number fixed by the rule was opened, but postponed to the Annual Meeting. 



The Rev. W. S. Symonds, Rector of Pendock, and author of " Old Stones," 

 " Stones of the Valley," &c., was elected an honorary member. 



The Hon. Secretary mentioned the discovery of a crustacean in the Cornstone 

 near Rowlstone, in this county, by a gentleman who had communicated it to 

 Mr. Symonds. The specimen had been sent to the Museum of Economic Geologj', 

 and its discovery was considered by the most eminent geologists of the day as one 

 of the very greatest importance. The name was not yet fi.xed. He observed 

 that Mr. Symonds would have been present at that meeting but for the fact that 

 the opening meeting of the British Association, at which he was anxious to be 

 present, was fixed for the following morning at Dublin, thus renaering it impossible 

 to be present at both. 



The subject of the new Canadian Water-weed was reported upon by Dr. Bull, 

 who said that since the last Meeting of the Club the Anacharis had extended itself 

 through a great part of the Hereford Canal, and is now abundant in the basin at 

 the Hereford end. He also stated that Mi. Edmunds had found the Anacharis, 

 not only in the Canal, but also in the bye-pools of the Lugg meadows, a fact which 

 was more difficult to account for than its presence in the Canal. He observed 

 that the notion of its presence in the Wye had got abroad among some people 

 who could not be supposed to be very accurate in their botanical knowledge. He 

 had examined one place where a boatman had told him the " new water weed " 

 was growing, but he saw nothing there but Poiamogeton and Myriophyllum, and 

 he did not think that a rapid stream like the Wye was a place where the Anacharis 

 was at all likely to gain a footing. That plant loves shallow and slow-moving or 

 stagnant water best ; a rapid stream with a large body of water does not suit it. 

 He remarked upon the short period which had elapsed since the plant was first 

 noticed, and upon the mysterious manner in which it had since spread over the 

 country. He knew of its having been found at Northampton in 1836, and Dr. 

 Hooker recorded its first discovery in Scotland in 1841, and since that time, by 

 some unknown means, it had made its way into rivers, canals, and pools in all 

 parts of England. It would seem to propagate itself by fragments torn from it 

 taking root wherever the water dropped them, for all the plants which had been 

 found in flower in this country are stated to have been male plants. He begged 

 to suggest that, as the time of flowering is just now, some member of the Club 

 might test the correctness of the statement on this point. 



