plan and section, is now in my hands and, by the courteouB permission of the author, will 

 be avaUable for our transactions. Thanks have been forwarded to Mr. Johnson in the 

 name of the Club. No time was at our command to make a sufficiently detaUed examina- 

 tion of the very striking scene before us, and most of its mineralogical and botanical 

 features had to be abandoned unexplored. Taking a line by the " Forked Pole," a noted 

 landmark on the basalt of (Jombrook, we, in a broken stream, made our way for the start 

 back to Tenbury. Then commenced one of those contretemps which, by the caprice of 

 fate, wUl sometimes interfere with the best regulated excursion. One of our horses 

 would not pnadown, hill. The ascent he had made no objection to, and seeing the weight 

 he had helped to convey in that direction, it did not enter into our minds to conceive that 

 he would make any to taking the same load down again. Equine perverseness was never 

 surely so determined and withal so unreasonable. The moment the break was put on 

 became the signal for our steed to sit on his haunches, and no persuasion of driver, pro- 

 fessional or amateur, made the slightest impression upon him. Shoving at the wheels 

 with ten-man power became our only resource. On finding the full force against 

 him of this vis a tergo, the remarkable animal would then make a rush for it, when the 

 philosophers had to scramble inside and out to their places as weU as they could in steeple- 

 chase form. This amusing pastime had to be repeated whenever the downward gradient 

 became severe. Many of our less nimble friends were repeatedly left far behind, and had 

 to be waited for, some of them being reduced to walk down the hill. Our active 

 Assistant Secretary took oft his coat in sheer desperation and swung himself to Tenbury 

 in right pedestrian style. After recovering from our exertions, we had no time left for 

 any exploration of Tenbury, its church, its wells, and other notabilia. Are they not, 

 however, printed and published in fuU and particular detail under the title of "Tenbury 

 Wells and its Neighbourhood," and sold, price twopence, by W. C. Tait, printer and book- 

 seller, 18, Teme-strSet, for the benefifof all who desire to be informed de omnibus rebus 

 et quibusdam aliis natural and artificial of the locality ? After a hurried dinner we made 

 the best of our way to the little station, and so ended a meeting, unmarked by any dis- 

 covery capable of adding fame to the annals of the Woolhope Club, yet not wanting in 

 the enjoyment afforded by pleasant intercourse, in lovely scenery, under a smiling sky. 



Members and visitors present at the Tenbury Field Meeting :— Members : Elmes Y. 

 Steele, Esq., President; the Rev. T. T. Smith, Vice-President ; Mr. Thomas Cam, 

 Mr. WilUam C. Gibson, Mr. Timothy Curley, Mr. W. A. Swinburne, Rev. W. C. 

 Fowle, Rev. Arthur Gray, Rev. J. H. Jukes, Rev. H. B. Marshall, Rev. E. J. Owen, 

 Rev. H. W. Phillott, Rev. H. W. Tweed, Rev. C. J. Westropp, Rev. R. H. Williams, 

 Mr. P. Harman, Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary. Visitors : 

 Mr. Birton, Mr. J. P. Casar, Mr. E. Cameron, Mr. Harper, Mr. Charles Key, Mr.McCarthy, 

 Mr. Charles McCarthy, Mr. J. E. Parris, the Rev. Abbot Monk, Mr. H. Mills, Mr. Phillott, 

 Mr. F. Symonds, Jun., the Rev. Thomas Whitley. 



We now approach the termination of this long, and, I fear, tedious address, as we 

 come to the final excursion of the year, " The Famous Fungus Foray," which had been 

 appointed for Thursday, the 10th of October. The heavy summer and autumn rains 

 seemed to have washed away all traces of fungus life. The common favourite mushroom, 

 AgaruMS campestris, was nowhere, and the usual ornaments of our meadows and woods 

 were so conspicuous by their absence that few of us anticipated any success for 

 the forcing expedition to which so many of us look forward with delight. As it 

 turned out, though the deluge ceased not, the industry and pluck of our more energetic 

 Mid zealous fungologists were rewarded by the gathering togetiier of an unusually, fine 

 d4«play of rare and remarkable species. For two or three days preliminary forays on a small 



