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ANNUAL FUNGUS DINNEE OF THE 

 WOOLHOPE CLUB. 



The annual fungus dinner of the Woolhope Club was held at the Green Dragon 

 Hotel Hereford, on Thursday evening, and was largely attended. The Rev. 

 Charles Burrough presided. The Hydnum repandum (the vegetable oyster), and 

 Cantharellus cibarius (the Chanterelle), were served up at the dinner in white 

 sauce with cream, and were thought delicious. 



The President, having submitted the toast of " The Queen,' called upon Dr. 

 Bull to give liis welcome to the visitors. 



Dr Bull who was warmly received, said that, in the first place, he wished to 

 make several 'official announcements. A book on " the diseases of field and garden 

 crops " had been published by Mr. Worthington Smith, and had been dedicated to 

 the Woolhope Club. He looked upon the dedication of the book to the Club as a 

 great honour to them, because it was a most useful and valuable work. The book 

 was exceedingly well illustrated, and it promised to be extremely useful m the 

 garden and vegetable world. The second announcement was in connection with 

 the Caradoc Field Club, which was an offspring of their's. At one of their meet- 

 ings the President of the Caradoc Field Club (the Rev. T. D. La Touche) said he 

 wls'induced to establish it through having attended the meetings of the Woolhope 

 Club The President of the Caradoc Field Club proposed to publish a manual of 

 the Geology of Shropshire, and the work could not be otherwise than of peculiar 

 interest to Herefordshire. There were no less than 823 lithographed figures m the 

 book The fossils represented belonged to the Silurian system which prevailed so 

 extensively in Herefordshire. That work had occupied Mr. La Touche a con- 

 siderable time. The next thing he had to notice, by the request of the Rev. .John 

 Stevenson author of Mycologia Scotica, was the pulilication of Flora of British 

 Fungi The fourth announcement he made with a great deal of pleasure-that 

 one of their active members (Mr. Plowright) was engaged on a work on TAe 

 Uredincs and the Ustalaginii, their Morphology and Physiology, with a description of 

 all the British species (applause). The next thing touched them more closely-the 

 Pomona. They had come to the last part of the Pomona, but he did not thmk 

 that it would be out for two or three months, as the engraver was behind with the 

 plates, owing to the illness of some of his artists. The visit of the representatives 

 of the' Woolhope Club to Rouen had been so exceedingly profitable that they 

 would have to add a sixteenth plate (applause). That was a much larger number 

 than they anticipated when they first started the Ponwnn. By this time next 

 year the Pomona would become a matter of history. After a good deal of con- 

 sideration, the Pomona Committee thought it advisable that the book should be 

 bound in two volumes-that was to say, the introductory part in one volume, and 

 the plates, with a description of them, in the other volume. He hoped the volumes 

 would be on their shelves long before this time next year. This was the tune that 



