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comity, Inat also an earnest of the fungus wealth which the one contained 

 and the other strove to popularise and illustrate. In this, as in most of the 

 successful aims of the Club, Dr. Bull was the pioneer and the untiring prime 

 mover. To him he (the President) owed the germ of the idea which he 

 thought he might be permitted briefly to broach on this occasion, and which 

 he hoped other members might co-operate in maturing at other meetings. He 

 refeiTed to an interchange by the Club members of grafts of choice apples 

 and pears, to the end that the i^omological resources of the county might be 

 augmented and circulated, and that the Club, as a society, might combine in 

 a work of usefulness and social enterprise which, in past time, at two different 

 periods, had made the names of Viscount Scudamore and of Thom.is Andrew 

 Knight famous among the benefactors of Herefordshire. 



The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, F.L.S., in acknowledging the compliment paid 

 to him and his fellow guests by the Woolhope Club on this occasion, said, 

 that as Chairman of the Horticultiu-al Society's Fruit Committee, he could 

 promise that any number of grafts which might be desired should be sent 

 from the Chiswick Gardens to the Club, if it carried out the scheme 

 suggested. 



Mr. C. E. Become also returned thanks for himself and his fellow 

 guests. 



The Prestdent then called upon Dr. Bull to introduce the subject of 

 Sclerotia, which stood first on the list of papers for the evening. 



Dr. Bull said he must iirst endorse what the President had so well said, 

 by expressing his sense of the high honour Mr. Berkeley had done them by 

 attending that meeting. It was a red-letter day in the annals of the Wool- 

 hoiJB Club, and he was quite pure it was as gratifying to the members 

 generally as it was to himself to see him there (hear, hear, and applause). 

 He always welcomed most cordially the many scientific gentlemen who were 

 good enough to join in th' se forays -Mr. Broome, from Bath, Mr. Houghton, 

 from Preston, INIr. Renny, from London, Mr. Plowright, from King's Lynn, 

 Mr. Vize, from Welshpool. Mr. La Touche from Stokesay, Mr. Worthington 

 Smith, from London, Mr. Edwin Lees, from Worcester, Mr. Phillips, from 

 Shrewf'bury, and many others. He did not know what the Woolhope Club 

 could have done without thi-ii- !:ind assistance, and he was rjuite sure that it 

 was a great advantage to Herefordshire to have its botanical treasures sought 

 out by such sharp eyes and clever heads (hear, hear). It was not so very long 

 since he was obliged to ask Mr. Lees to come and give them their first lessons 

 on funguses in the field, and from th.at time, year by year, their meetings had 

 increased in success. He would just remind them of the discoveries made by 

 • the Club last year. The foriys, they would remember, were dreadfully wet, 

 and they were not all of th^-m so "perfe tly happy" as some innocently 

 expre.ssed themselves in the Whitfield woods when the rain came 

 poui-ing down in torrents (laughter). And yet they were never more suc- 

 cessful. The rare Marasmius spodoleucus and Naucoria cucumis were found 



