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Lad passed through so very beautiful, that he thought they must all have spent 

 as pleasant a day as he had done (applause). There were some few matters of 

 business to which he must allude before the papers for the evening were read 

 He was sure they would wish him, in the first place, to give then- thank to 

 Mr Henry Southall, for the trouble he had so kindly taken to make the a range- 

 m ents, which had been so satisfactory carried out. He had done much more 

 than this, for, finding that there might be a scarcity of papers, he had prepared 

 one himself on the Meteorology of Herefordshire, which would be of great 

 interest and value to the Club (applause). They were also exceedingly indebted 

 to Mrs. SouthaU for the bouquets-the very elegant bouquets he ought to say 

 which had been prepared for the ladies (great applause). Tins was one of tho.e 

 delicate attentions which did so much towards P^"-^ J 

 pleasantly and satisfactorily as they always did go off at Ross He ought to 

 call their attention to the fact that each bouquet not only had a spray of the 

 maiden hair fern, but also a small frond of the fern of the district the Limestone 

 Polypody (applause). The ladies might also have the satisfaction o can ing 

 off wUh them a root of this somewhat rare fern to plant in memory of the day 

 or M, Southall, with the assistance of Mr. Watkins, bad procured a whole tray 

 full for this purpose (applause). Dr. Bull then said be had to tell them of a 

 very generous gift made to the Club by Mr. Rankin, who was president astye.u 

 He had presented them with the entire cost of Mr. Worthington Smith s Key 

 to British Agarics » and all its illustrations, that the funds of the C lub might be 

 devoted to the publication of the Flora (great applause). The next information 

 he had to give them was that the following gentlemen had been unanimously 

 elected members at the meeting in the morning :-The Right Hon Lord Bateman, 

 the -Rev. F. T. Havergal, Herbert Howarth Wood, Esq., and the Rev. Arthur 

 Edward Evans ; and some other gentlemen were then proposed for election. Dr. 

 Bull then concluded by paying a high compliment to the lecturer of the day, Dr. 

 Wright of Cheltenham, who had been so kind as to come and give them the 

 very°eloquent address they had had the gratification of listening to on Symond s 

 YaT. He was very sure he was only conveying the sense of all the ladies and 

 gentlemen present in thanking him very cordially for the very able lecture he 

 had given (great applause). 



Some magnificent specimens of a new silkworm from North America 

 PlaPjsamia Cecropia, which may possibly become useful, were then sent round 

 for the inspection of the company. They were brought by Dr. Chapman, of 

 Abergavenny, who had exhibited the larv* at one of our meetings last year. 

 Dr Chapman had also brought with him some very fine specimens of Lentinus 

 Lcpidcus, the new fungus he had discovered last year at Abergavenny. 



Dr Wrignt, in returning thanks for the kind manner in which they had 

 received him, was good enough to give them an interesting sketch of the 

 discoveries he had made with reference to the "Coral Beds of the Oohte 

 Rocks." 



