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Hereford Times, and read them with great pleasure (applause). He was glad to 
see Mr. Edmunds present that day, because he knew that he would give an inter- 
esting and faithful account of that day’s proceedings (applause). 
Mr. Epuunps said that his friends must think him a very ingrate if he 
failed to acknowledge the series of compliments which Mr. Symonds had been so 
kind as to pay him and to the Hereford Times. If he had rendered any services 
to the Club and to natural science, he had been amply repaid by the pleasure and 
instruction which he had received from it. When, at the formation of the Club 
more than twenty years ago, he originated the practice of reporting meetings of 
this kind for the public, he did so because he had imbibed a love of natural science 
from coming to reside in the district; and ever since then the reporting of its 
meetings had been a labour of love to him, and a mark of his gratitude for the 
instruction which he had thus obtained. He owed to Mr. Symonds most of what 
little he had acquired of geology, and to other members most of his botany ; and 
he had much pleasure in learning that he had been successful to so great an extent 
in making the reports of these proceedings interesting as well as instructive to 
others. In so saying he wished particularly to acknowledge the zeal and ability 
with which, when from ill health and other causes he had for a time relinquished 
the work, it had been taken up by successive Presidents at the Club. To Dr. 
Bull especially the Club’s thanks were due for the excellent manner in which he 
had for seven or eight years reported the Club’s transactions, and the admirable 
volumes which appeared under his care. Last year, the President had found 
time amid his many engagements to report the meetings most ably; and his 
reports would appear in the volume of the Transactions now in course of pre- 
paration. He might just say that various causes had combined to delay the 
printing, but that it was going forward, and by and by he had no doubt the volume 
would be placed in the hands of the members (applause). 
The PresIDENT presented the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Symonds for 
his most able and eloquent address. 
Mr. Jones THoMAS seconded the proposition, and expressed a hope that 
Mr. Symonds would permit his address to appear in full in the Transactions. 
(applause). 
The motion was carried by acclamation, and was suitably acknowledged. 
The President then presented the thanks of the meeting to the Rev. 
Jones Thomas for his kindness in guiding the party that day, and Mr. Thomas, of 
Welfield, for his courteous reception of that large gathering of visitors. 
The party then, after a hasty visit to Pencerrig, made their way direct to 
Builth, it being then nearly two o’clock, and the time of departure of the train not 
allowing of the intended visit to the summit of the Carneddau. Sooth to say, 
too, the philosophers were anxious to recruit their physical energies, They had 
fulfilled the first part of the poetic adage : 
I am resolved 
The mind shall banquet, though the body starve. 
