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further presented a paper containing a list of f- e fungi found during the 

 Hereford foraj-s of October, 1873, and, remarking on what the President had 

 said iu his address of the success of these forays, took occasion to say that the 

 season was decidedly unfavourable for mycological discoveries, owing to its 

 lateness and the very low temperature, but the success of the meetin--, a.s 

 praphicaUy illustrated, had been "stunning." 



After the President had returned thaaks for the compliment paid to 

 himself and his son, 



The Rev. "SV. Jones Thomas addressed the club upon the impoitancc. 

 with a view to a collected flora of the county and its districts, of parochial 

 floras made by resident botanists, such records to be treasured up, and (as we 

 imderstood him) kept as carefully as the registers of the iiarish. Mr. Thomas 

 further pleaded for more attention to the somewhat neglected art of flower 

 painting, and its application to the permanent recording of the wild Howers of 

 a parish or district. 



The Rev. T. T. Smith agreed with Mr. Thomas, and considered that this 

 kind and manner of record was in many resjiects preferable to the plan of 

 preserving dried specimens. 



Mr. Rankin then made some remarks on the meteorology of the year, and 

 the great value of the meteorological tables with which Mr. Isbell had been 

 wont from year to year to enhance the value of the club's transactions. In the 

 course of his observations Mr. Rankin quoted an opinion that the mean 

 temperature of 1873 was higher than usual. 



Dr. BaLL controverted that opinion, and adduced authorities and argu- 

 ments in support of his view. 



Mr. Rankin observed that, as a rule, the tem^ierature was apt to be 

 lower than elsewhere in Herefordshire. 



In the course of the evening Mr. Haveegal, at the request of the Presi- 

 dent, gave some account of the completion of the Mappa Mundi fac similes, 

 .and of the elucidatory essay on mediteval geography by Messrs. Bevan and 

 Phillot. He recalled the recollection of the club to the fact that this truly 

 Herefordshire work had been undertaken at the instance of the Woolhope 

 Club at one of the annual meetings. As yet he regretted to say that public 

 libraries and institutions had not subscribed for these works with anything 

 like alacrity, though, they were full of interest, and by no means so dry as 

 might be expected from the nature of the subject. Turning to some remarks 

 which had fallen from Mr. Davies in his address about the long-deferred 

 prospect of a complete county history. Mr. Havergal dwelt at some length 

 on the extreme value of the storehouse of ancient deeds, records, and papers 

 in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. At present these were a 

 sealed book to the archaeologist and the antiquary, although at the archieo- 

 logical meeting at Hereford four or five years back, a few of these treasures, 

 which he had then been permitted to exhibit to one of the meetings, had 

 been pronounced to be of the highest value and interest. 



