derive our name, is still very far from being fully explored, and will well repay 

 many a long day spent in examining its intricate but most interesting features, 

 The excursions of the Club were then brought to a close for the season, and, as I am 

 informed, to the entire satisfaction of all those who were able to take part in them. 



At this meeting Mr. Edwin Lees read a very interesting paper on the " Algce 

 of Drought and High Temperatures," and he has been good enough to prepare 

 with his own hand, for our volume, a coloured plat", to illustrate it. Professor 

 Buckman gave an excellent practical paper on Fairy Kings, which, if it does not 

 solve the difficult enigma of their circular mode of growth, certainly advances 

 our knowledge of the subject in a right direction, Mr. Worthington Smith was 

 very happy in his paper on Tree Fungi ; and Dr. Bull brought a most instructive 

 meeting to a sitisfactory conclusion by his Herefordshire Edible Funguses, as 

 beautifully illustrated by coloured drawings, as the culinary virtues of the 

 Funguses were temptingly set forward. 



At our meeting today, besides the careful Meteorlogical observation', for 

 which we are all so much indebted to Messrs. Isbell, Lloyd, and Soutcall ; the 

 valuable logal lists of our Lepidoptera for Leominster, by the family of the 

 Rev. Thoma3 Hutchinson, and for Whitfield, by Mr. Harman ; the inter- 

 esting Autobiography of Fries and his Photograph ; and the lively paper of 

 our own Commissioner on Herefordshire Trees, so full of facts and so well 

 illustrated with photographs ; you will have brought before you some re- 

 cently discovered Herefordshire Fossils, carefully drawn on the stone, named and 

 described by our greatest auhority on the subject. These new and interesting 

 contributions to Science, no* for the first time published, greatly enrich our 

 Transactions, and give the Club good reason to be proud of our volume. The de- 

 scription by Henry Woodward, Esq.. F.G.S , F.L.S., &c, of the British Museum, 

 of the very remarkable Fossil, brought to light by our iudefatigable member, Dr. 

 McCullough, at Rowlestone, is especially interesting. Mr. Woodward says, "It 

 reveals a structure unlike that of any palaeozoic Crustacean heretofore met with, but 

 peculiarly insect-like." He considers it the remains of a giant Isopod, and he has 

 named it, Prceardurus gigas. The discovery of this strangenew Crustacean should 

 quicken the zeal of our local geologists ; showing as it doe3 that our old Red 

 Sandstone Quarries, usually thought tj be so barren, contain treasures worth 

 searching for. 



Again, we have a new species of Eurypterus from Perton, near Stoke E lith, 

 also described by Mr. Woodward, and named by him after its discoverer, the Rev. 

 P. B. Biodie, M.A , F.G.S., Eurypterus Brodiei, which is also well illustrated 

 by Lithographic sketches. 



And lastly, the same gentleman has described and named the Fossil dis- 

 covered by Mr. Humphrey Salway, at Leintwardine, some little time since, and 

 which will henceforth bear the name of Ntcrogammarus Salweyi. 



I must not omit to mention now a circumstance which must be a matter of 

 congratulation both to the Woolhope Club itself, and the city of Hereford as well ; 



