spection of geological visitors. The room, too, has been supplied with proper 

 lights, tables, &c. For this reception, every preparation had been made to enter- 

 tain the visitors. Rev. E. J. Holloway, Messrs. H. C. Moore, Edgar Morris, 

 J. Griffith Morris, and Mr. With liad powerful microscopes arranged to exhibit a 

 moat interesting series of objects. It is impossible now to do more than mention 

 the most remarkable, and they certainly were those virulent minute funguses 

 which are so fatal to human and animal life. They are so minute as to require a 

 magnifying power of 2,000 times to show them, and they can therefore only be 

 shown by the most powerful microscopes. Mr. With exhibited thus the Bacillus 

 Antkracis, which is the cause of splenic fever, and which destroys so many 

 thousands of animals ; he also showed what was even more interesting to most 

 people, and that was the Bacillus, which is now supposed by many observers to be 

 the cause of consumption, with other Bacilli and Micrococci ; Mr. With's whole 

 time was occupied throughout the evening in showing these minute objects to the 

 visitors. On the central tables were cases filled with a complete collection of 

 British butterflies and moths, most beautifully preserved and exhibited by Dr. 

 Chapman. There were also laid out many illustrated books of funguses and 

 drawings — not to pass over the several numbers of The Herefordshire Pomona, 

 which meets with such general approval. On the walls of the room, above the 

 fossil cases, were hung a most interesting series of photographs. At the upper end 

 of the room were the likenesses of Liudley, Murchison, Lyell, Darwin, and other 

 leading men of science, honorary members of the Club ; whilst on the other side 

 were many photographs of the working scientific men belonging to the Club — 

 Berkeley, Cooke, Wren Hoskyns, Rev. James Davies, McCullough, and many 

 others. Between the windows hung the portrait of the late Mr. Mackay Scobie, 

 the father of the present Mayor of Hereford, who was the first honorary secretary 

 and the chief founder of the Woolhope Club. An hour was spent very pleasantly 

 by the visitors in inspecting all the various objects of interest in the Club Room. 

 At nine o'clock, in accordance with the programme, they adjourned to the Museum 

 Room to hear the papers. 



Dr. Bull, at the request of the President and Committee, called attention to 

 several circumstances that combined to render the meeting a memorable one in the 

 annals of the Club, dwelling in particular on the satisfaction they had in cordially 

 welcoming their principal guest — the chief magistrate of the city — as the son of the 

 founder of the Woolhope Club. In 1851, he said, the idea of establishing a 

 Naturalists' Club, in imitation of the Cotteswold and Tyneside Clubs, arose in two 

 or three directions, but it was due to the energy and ability of Mr. Mackay 

 Scobie, the Mayor's father, that all parties united and the Club was really formed. 

 Mr. Scobie, recognising the unparalleled field for the study of geology afforded by 

 Herefordshire, threw all his energy into the subject, and was quickly rewarded by 

 making some of those discoveries which always await the diligent student of 

 nature. Mr. Scobie discovered the dome of Silurian rock which appears on the 

 surface in Hagley Park. It was previously unknown, for it had escaped the care- 

 ful Government survey by the ofiicers of the Ordnance Department. Here, too, 

 in the "fish-bone bed," he met with the remains of that remarkable Silurian 



