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ideas—-had become really a valuable one. Everyone felt that if was a present 
really deserved from our Club ; and it may be said, without hesitation, that this 
feeling will be echoed far and wide through the country. Our Club has done 
itself honour in giving such kindly expression to their obligation ; and all those 
who have written to Mr. Smith from all parts of the country, asking the names and 
other information about funguses, will know how worthy Mr, Smith is of it. Not 
to mention the time and patience he has given to all applicants—strangers as well 
as friends—it must have cost him no small sum in postage stamps alone to reply to 
them. Our President has not told you how useful that mystical individual, ‘ Our 
Own Commissioner,” was to us. He set to work at once, ornamented the in- 
scription plate with funguses, and sketched out a design for engraving on the lid 
of the box. There was not time to carry all this out! but he insisted—and I 
fully agree with him—that every fork or spoon, in place of crest, should bear a 
fungus on its handle—each a different one, and all of them to be copied from the 
plates published in our ‘‘ Transactions,” or to represent the funguses new to 
Britain discovered by our Club; so that the friendly, pleasant days he has passed 
in Herefordshire will be always recalled to him as his eye falls on a deliciosus 
spoon, or a procerus fork, and a kindly feeling will pervade his domestic every day 
life (applause). 
Mr. W. G. SmirH, who was warmly applauded on rising, said there was 
one thing which he never could do, and that was to make a speech, but he felt 
this inability all the more on that occasion, when he was surprised with such un- 
expected kindness. He had been thinking only that day how much he was 
obliged by the unvarying attention and courtesy shown to him in Herefordshire, 
and he really felt that it was he who ought to make a presentation to the Club 
rather than the Club to him. He could only add that he prized their splendid 
gift very highly, and should always feel himself greatly indebted to their kind- 
ness (applause). 
