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the delinquent was observed in the distance quietly marching at the rate of two 

 miles an hour, as calculated by pedometer, towards his vacant seat. 



Keturned to town once more, but half -an -hour behind time, the annual meet- 

 ing of members was held, the President for the ensuing year elected, the honorary 

 chaplain, the Rev. Canon Du Port duly elected an honorary member, and the 

 member.?, visitors, and friends adjourned to the " Green Dragon " for the dinner. 

 There is a great similarity in all public dinners, and one Woolhope dinner is 

 very much like another, so there is nothing very special to record. After some 

 preliminaries, including the presentation of an excellent portrait of the venerable 

 Fries, sent to the Club by his sons, came the reading of two or three papers. 

 One of these, entitled "A Missing Chapter from the Tramp Abroad," gave some 

 humourous illustrations of recent mycological theories. The others were on "Fish 

 Culture as Practised by the Ancients," and some observations by Mr. Edwin 

 Lees, F.L.S., now in his eighty-third year. Subsequently the members and 

 friends adjourned to a reception at the house of Mr. Thomas Cam, where the 

 remaining papers were read, and some drawings exhibited, including some char- 

 acteristic sketches by Mr. C. B. Plowright, and a large folio of drawings sent for 

 exhibition by Mr. George Massee, of Scarborough. This brought the official 

 meetings of the week to a conclusion, with the exception of the final excursion to 

 Ledbury on the morrow, and a last cup of coffee with the " presiding genius " 

 under the shadow of his own roof. 



The papers communicated during the week were the following :— 

 " A Missing Chapter from the Tramp Abroad : " by Dr. M. C. Cooke, M. A., 

 &c. "Jensen's Discoveries concerning the Potato Disease:" by Mr. Charles 

 B. Plowright. " Fish Culture, as Practised by the Ancients : " by the Rev. Wm. 

 Houghton, M.A., &c. "On some so-called Fish-Eating Birds at the Fisheries 

 Exhibition:" by Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips, F.L.S., &c. "On the Colours of 

 Fungi, as indicated by the Latin Words used by Fries : " by the Rev. Canon Du 

 Port M,A. "Mr. 0. G. Stewart's Notes on the Alkaloids and other Substances 

 that have been extracted from Fungi: " by Mr. Henry T. Wharton, M.A., Oxon. 

 "Some Remarks on Polycystina : " by the Rev. J. E. Vize, M.A. "Notes on 

 some Species of Tricholoma not easily distinguished from each other : " by the 

 Rev. Canon Du Port, M.A. "Researches upon the Uredines :" by Mr. Charles 

 B. Plowright. "Notes on the Chroolepus Jolithus and other Algoid Colorific 

 Plants : " by Mr. Edwin Lees, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 



Friday, October 5th.— The final trip by rail to I>edbury was somewhat modi- 

 fied on account of the funeral of Earl Somers, which took place on the same day, 

 in consequence of which the visit to Eastnor Castle was abandoned. After a 

 short ride by omnibus from Ledbury, the visitors alighted at the corner of an 

 unpretending country lane, which promised to lead to nowhere, and commenced 

 scrambling through the wood close by— a process persevered in for an hour or two 

 without any perceptible results, fungi being very scarce, and the species very 

 common, not a single one of any interest having been found at noon, when the 

 party retreated towards Ledbury Park and woods with manifest satisfaction. 

 Here the ground was evidently good, some few species were found which had not 



