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and thence by Ham Green, Backburrovv Wood, and Stoctons Copse, to the lime- 

 kilns near the Croft Farm, and on down the valley to inspect the trap bosses in 

 Covvleigh Park. 



The Botanists present, attracted irresistibly to Mr. Edwin Lees, had a delight- 

 ful ramble under his special guidance. This district is peculiarly his own. No 

 one knows so well the localities of its rarest plants, and happily no one knows how, 

 with better tact, to guard them from ruthless destruction. 



The whole party, some 60 or 70 strong, met to dine at the Link Hotel, and 

 such as could remain for the night were kindly invited by Dr. Grindrod to a soiree 

 at Townshend House, when his fine collection of Silurian fossils was exhibited, 

 and w'here several interesting papers were afterwards read. 



A day on the Malvern Hills — weathei propitious — must always be enjoyable, 

 but with Mr. Symonds to descant on the rocks he loves so well, and Mr. Lees to 

 explain all that grows upon their surface — it would be stiange indeed if this 

 particular meeting should not ever be of pleasant memory to those who had the 

 good fortune to be present. • 



Our Club, with the others, may be considered to have been on a visit to the 

 Malvern Club, and it would ill become your Reporter to trespass on the rights ot 

 hospitality. To those, therefore, who wish for more exact details of the day's 

 proceedings and the papers read, I must answer, Are they not written in the 

 Archives of the Malvern Club ? I don't think much real work was done, and 

 perhaps never is on such grand gatherings. All present most thoroughly enjoyed 

 the day, and returned home with a store of information, and a renewed enthusiasm, 

 let us hope, to carry on the work of observation in their several districts. 



I prefer asking you, on the present occasion, to leave Worcestershire, and 

 come with me along the top of the hills to our own Herefordshire Beacon, and 

 descending by the long spur called the " Ridgeway," leading from it to Eastnor 

 Park, to visit the Oak Tree upon which the Mistletoe grows so luxuriantly.* 



See "The Mistletoe in Herefordshire," following the President's Address on March 17th, iS 



