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Central Committee of Management: T. Curley, Esq., C.E., F.G.S., Hereford; 

 John Lloyd, Esq., Huntington Court, Hereford ; C. G. Martin, Esq., Hereford. 



Honorary Secretary: The Rey. Sir George H. Cornewall, Bart., M.A., Moccas 

 Court, Hereford. 



Treasurer and Aisistant-Secretary : Mr. Arthur Thompson, St. Nicholas-street, 

 Hereford. 



The following gentlemen ware elected members of the Club -.—W. C. Gibson, 

 Esq., Sngwas Court; F. H. Herbert, Esq., Credenhill Court; and H. G. 

 Apperley, Esq., Hereford ; and some others were proposed for election at a future 

 meeting. 



The Secretary announced that he had succeeded with some difficulty in 

 purchasing, at full price, some of the back volumes of their Transactions, so as 

 to make up two complete sets for presentation to the Free Library, and it was 

 unanimously resolved that they should be presented forthwith, with the under- 

 standing that one copy only be allowed to circulate, and that the other should 

 always be kept in the Library. 



The publication of the Flora of the Covmty, by the Rev. T7. H. Purchas, 

 was reported to be in progress, and after some other business announcements 

 the book was closed, and the hunt for funguses again began. 



The delicate, beautiful fungus Agariciis mucidus, white and fragile, was here 

 gathered from a decaying branch of the beech tree above, and on its roots below 

 Polyporiii giganteus was beginning to grow. Here too, in tha adjoining under- 

 wood, soon was smelt out that curious, vindesireable, beautiful, horrid, graceful, 

 disgusting, interesting, stinking fungus, Phallus impudicus, which is very justly 

 named " stink-horn. " It is usually found with pleasure and parted from with joy. 



The wood was now left for the more open ground of the hill, and on the 

 remains of some charcoal burning places the funguses peculiar to such spots, 

 Agaricus carbonarius, Aq. atratua, and Cantharellus radicosus, were found. 



The views from the hiU, with Hampton Court in the rich and well wooded 

 valley beneath, and the park on the rising hill beyond are exquisitely rich and 

 beautiful, and were seen to great advantage on the present occasion. Mr. 

 Arkwright had most kindly given the members of the Club full permission to 

 trespass in all directions their fancy might lead them, and as the sun shone 

 brightly on the mansion, with its very uppermost gable clothed in brilliant 

 carmine by the autumnal foliage of the Virginian creeper, the desire to visit the 

 gardens was irresistable. 



The private bridge over the Lug was crossed — how considerately fortunate 

 it was that the gate should chance to be uidocked ! — and the gardens were soon 

 reached. '' What a magnificent lawn ! " was the exclamation of a gentleman who 

 saw it for the first time, " How beautiful the woods are !" " Yes," said another, 

 " it has an atmosphere of its own, like all grand things, and must be seen there- 

 fore to be appreciated rightly." It well may indeed have its own aerial per- 

 spective, for the smooth, green surface stretches along the valley for a distance 

 of some two miles, level as a lake. The views in this lovely valley were well 



