nented with his visits to Herefordshire and to Monmouthshire, we shall look forward with 

 delight to his joining on many another foray the host of friends he has made in the 

 Woolhope Club. A discussion followed on sundrj' subjects f ungological, mainly supported 

 by Mr. Broome, the Rev. J. E. Vyie, Mr. Worthington Smith, Mr. Plowright, and 

 other learned mycologists, several of whom finished the evening imder Mr. Cam's hospi- 

 table roof, where microscopical investigations and the study of choice descriptive and 

 illustrative publications occupied them till a late hour ; thus appropriately concluding a 

 most instructive day, which deserves to be remembered as a signal success in our 

 annals. 



Members and visitors taking part in the Foray and meeting :— Members : ElmeB Y. 

 Steele, Esq., President ; Rev. T. T. Smith and J. Griffith Morris, Esq., Vice-Presidents ; 

 Timothy Curley, Esq., John Lloyd, Esq., and C. G. Martin, Esq., Central Committee ; 

 Worthington Smith, Esq., Honorary Member ; Dr. Bull, Thomas Cam, Esq., Rev. Archer 

 Clive, Rev. James Davies, James H. Davies, Esq., Rev. W. C. Fowle, William C. Gibson, 

 Esq., F. W. Herbert, Esq., Rev. J. E. Jones, Machen, Rev. H. Cooper Key, W. A. 

 Swinburne, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Symonds, W. H. West, Esq., Rev. F. S. Stooke, 

 Rev. R. H. Williams, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer and Assistant-Secretary. 

 Visitor: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wynne, Mrs. Key, C. E. Broome, Esq., Rev. W. Houghton, 

 William Phillips, Esq., C. B. Plowright, Esq., James Renny, Esq., Rev. J. E. Vyse, — 

 Riddle, Esq., Worcester College, Oxford, Rev. W. Taprell Allen, J. E. Cameron, Esq., 

 Dr. G. Thomas Jones, Downton, Louis Hart, Esq., and T. C. Harris, Esq., Demerara, E. 

 Haggard, Esq., J. C. Kent, Esq., F. C. Symonds, Esq., Reg^inald Symonds, Esq., Elmes 

 Steele, Esq., Jun. Business transacted : The following Officers were elected for the 

 year 1873— President : Rev. James Davies, Moor Court ; Rev, Arthur Gray, Orcop, Ross, 

 Rev. H. W. Phillott, Stau nton-on-Wye, W. A. Swinburne, Esq., Dulas, Hay, Rev. R. H. 

 Williams, Byford, Vice-Presidents. Central Committee of Management : Thomas Cam, 

 Esq., Timothy Curley, Esq., John Lloyd, Esq., C. G. Martin, Esq., J. Griffith Morris, Esq. 

 Honorary Secretary : Rev. Sir G. H. Cornewall, Bart., Moccas Court, Hereford. Treasurer 

 and Assistant Secretary : Mr. Arthur Thompson, 12, St. Nicholas-street, Hereford. 



In the survey that I have thus imperfectly laid before you of our proceedings during 

 the past year, there is nothing to reflect much lustre on oiu' Club as exhibiting scientific 

 research, or laborious activity in the pursuit of the riches which we know must be lying 

 in wait around and beneath for those who may have the skill and patience to find them. 

 In geology we have made no advance, although doubtless some of us may have improved 

 our acquaintance with wha} has been already recorded. In botany, always excepting our 

 favoured funguses, the only novelty recorded consists in the hitroduction to the Hereford- 

 shire Flora of the Aspleniuni viride, which has been signalised by Mr. Smith, of Hay, 

 from the Black Darren, an outline of the Black Mountain range. This small, and, but for 

 its rarity, somewhat insignificant fern, which for elegance and luxuriant beauty, is far 

 excelled by its charming ally, the common Asplenium Trichomanes, has long been known 

 to have an established habitat in the wilder recesses of some of the Monmouthshire and 

 Radnorshire Mountains, within reach of the Woolhope botanists, notably in the Llanthony 

 Valley, near Capel y Ffin, where it fringes the escarpment of Old Red Sandstone, and will 

 freelj repay the searcher who will take for his guidance the travertine now forming, as for 

 ages past, from the deposit of carbonate of lime given off by a streamlet as it plimgea over 

 the escarpement that joins the Honddu in the valley below. The light colour of the 

 travertine, in contrast with the black rock, gives an excellent landmark, but the scaling of 

 the precipice is rather tough work. 



In entomology we have the discovery by Mr. Harman of two species of Lepidoptera, 



