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President said he was not allowed to name the ladies who had been so kind as 

 to do this work for him and the club, but he could safely teU them that if 

 they only knew who they were, they would value the picture much more highly 

 (applause). The President then exhibited a specimen of Erigeron Acris, the blue 

 fleabane, a plant new to the Hereford district, and which was found near the 

 ceraetery walL Another Ulustration for the Transactions was also exhibited, a 

 coloured lithograph of an ancient British drinking cup exhumed from the 

 summit of the Worcestershire Beacon in 1819, and now in the possession of 

 Mr. Lees. He then passed on to notice that amongst the good deeds they had 

 done at the annual meeting held that morning, was to elect Mr. Chandos Wren 

 Hoskyns President for the next year, and the Rev. S. Clark, the Rev. Thos. 

 Woodhouse, Humphrey Salwey, Esq., and T. Curley, Esq., Vice-Presidents 

 for the year. These appointments gave a sueScient guarantee for the continued 

 prosperity of the club. He next expressed the gratification he felt at being 

 supported by his friend the Mayor of Hereford, and remarked that there was 

 no one present who had more love of natural history in him than Mr. Symonds. 

 If any of them doubted this, he would advise them to accompany that gentle- 

 man in the cool weather of the last week in December or the first week in 

 January in an excursion up the brook Olchon, the river Dore, or Ruckhall 

 brook in search of trouts' nests ; b\it he warned them that if they did not put 

 the same enthusiasm into the work that Mr. Symonds did, they would be sure 

 to catch rheumatism if they did not get trouts' eggs (laughter). He believed 

 Mr. Symonds had hatched and educated more young trout and salmon than any 

 member of the club, and had afterwards turned them into the different streams 

 of the county. He had some trouts' eggs hatching just now and had kindly 

 sent up for some of the baby fish for exhibition to the members. They could 

 not drink the health of the Mayor, because it would be contrary to their 

 rules, but he was sure they would all give him their best thanks for his 

 attendance to-day as chief Magistrate of the city (hear, and applause). 

 They were also favoured with the attendance of several members of neigh- 

 bouring clubs— Sir Wm. Guise, the president of the Cotswold Club, whom 

 he might call the Nestor of field-clubs for this part of England ; the Rev. 

 W. S. Sjmonds, the president of the Malvern Club, and whose enthusiasm they 

 all knew so well ; and Mr. Edwin Lees, the representative of the Worcester- 

 shire Club, who throughout the year had rendered them such good service. 

 The only toast he could propose— and it was one which he gave with great 

 pleasure— was "Success to Naturalists' Field-clubs in general, and to the 

 Woolhope Club in particular," connected with the gentlemen whom he had 

 named (applause). In conclusion, the President stated the arrangements of 

 the evening for the reading of papers and for the discussion. 



The Mayor gracefully responded to the kind sentiments expressed by the 

 President, and assured the meeting that it was only the want of time which 

 prevented his devoting more attention to the interesting pursuits in which the 

 club was engaged. [A glass, containing some trouts' eggs and several little fish, 



