ways in which it has fostered love for science, or helped the progress of scientific 

 knowledge, or given to the world by its publications the results of scientific 



observation. 



Certainly Dr Bull was an example of the truth of the axiom, or the paradox, 

 that the busiest man is the man of most leisure. One might have thought, for the 

 greater portion of the year at all events, that he had little else to do than attend 

 to the Club and its proceedings, so infinitely full of detail, so complete in all the 

 pains that he took to enrich it, was the labour that he expended upon it. 



To take one instance. It occurs perhaps to very few, save of those who have 

 experienced it, to think how much work of a somewhat anxious kind is needed m 

 the preparation for any given excursion, the fitting in of every arrangement so that 

 there may be no confusion, and that the maximum of the day's instruction or 

 amusement or enjoyment may be gained. It may sound odd to speak of this as 

 onerous ; but it is onerous notwithstanding, even in the minute attention to 

 apparently insignificant details which it involves. Regularly, consistently, and 

 successfully-how successfully the memories of most of us bear witness-Dr. Bull 

 took all this on his own shoulders. And the Club accepted it as a matter of course 

 that all would go well because " it was left to " him. 



Then again who can forget him in the course of any of those excursions, of 

 which he rarely, if ever, missed a single one? The dullest, the most inauspicious, 

 day could not quench his eager spirits, the zest with which he saw, or descanted 

 on, any phenomenon of nature, the liveliness with which he led his party from 

 point to point of the projected route. And as we turn over the pages of the 

 published Tranmctiom of past years it seems little less than wonderful how on 

 such a great variety of subjects as have come under the Club's observation there 

 never was, there never needed to be, any fear or doubt of coming short of a paper 

 or address that might illustrate them ; for, be they almost what they might, 

 Dr. Bull was always ready, always prepared at tbe shortest notice to write some- 

 thing that should be thoughtful, instructive, going into the very heart of the 

 matter, full of interest. 



Nor were the subjects of these papers and addresses merely taken up at 

 random. There was a systematic pursuit of some end, something that he wanted 

 to round off, and exhaust information about so far as he might. Witness, for 

 example, the descriptive series of remarkable trees of Herefordshire ; and again, 

 more lately, the investigations which he prosecuted and aided into the history of 

 the many camps, Roman and British, traces of which remain in the county. 

 Indeed this also was remarkable in him how his love for his adopted county went 

 step by step along with his zeal for science, so that to him the greatest enjoyment 

 was to make the latter serviceable towards elucidating the wealth of natural 

 production, or throwing light on the story of the past days, of Herefordshire. 



Of this feature of his mind the two greatest works that, in connexion with 

 the Woolhope Club, will cause his name to live may be taken as examples. We 

 allude to the establishment of the now celebrated " Fungus Forays " of the Club, 

 and the recent publication of " The Herefordshire Pomona." 



It is a matter of notoriety that the action of the Woolhope Club has 



