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In Sir Charles Lyell, whose death in February last removed from the 
scientific circles, which he adorned, an almost octagenarian, many of our living 
geologists will have lost their first guide to the principles of their favourite science, 
and their best counsellor in their maturer researches. I suppose, too, that even 
an outsider like myself may be allowed to bear testimony to one characteristic in 
. which his great works are unequalled—their peculiarly lucid style. This is a sure 
key to popularity, as indeed, considering the quantity of various work the well- 
informed man has now-a-days to squeeze into his curriculum, it well deserves 
to be. 
Well! all these men of mark were amongst our Honorary Members : as was 
also one, less known, less great, but more local to us, a clever man, a kindly soul, 
a pleasant and congenial fellow-rambler—on a Woolhope field-day, our friend 
Flavell Edmunds. He, too, is taken. He rests from his labours : but I think that 
few of us will forget the enthusiasm he imported into any meeting he attended, the 
multifariousness of his knowledge, whether the matter in hand was local nomen- 
clature, or field botany, or the seats, stones, and vestiges of the never-dying King 
Arthur. Most, too, can testify that he exhibited in disputation an excellent 
temper, and could agree to differ without looks of offence. Let us hope that, where 
freed from life’s fitful fever he sleeps well ; no echoes reach him of newspapers’ 
criticism, calculated to disturb, as fables tell us very second-rate creatures may do, 
a sleeping lion. ; 
But—wuno avulso, non deficit alter—and in the case of the first and foremost 
of our Honorary Members of the new creation--I think I may add Virgil’s epithet, 
* Aureus.” Certainly Mr. Berkeley, the Nestor of Mycologists (unless, indeed, I 
am to endorse Mr. Worthington Smith’s fancy, and call him the ‘‘ Agamemnon of 
Mycenz ”), deserved at our hands the highest honour at our bestowal, and that 
not only for his countenance and support in the Autumn of 1873 to our mycological 
foray and festival, but (shall I say) for the even more practical kindness he has 
spontaneously shown to our society in the matter of the apple-grafts which, as 
Chairman of the Fruit Committee at South Kensington, he so liberally and 
generously sent us in furtherance of our project of improving the pomological 
table-fruit of Herefordshire. That. seasonsble and substantial kindness—for it 
amounted to no less than 97 grafts—I duly acknowledged in my capacity of Presi- 
dent at the time; but it also claims notice in this address, which would be of no 
use if it did not commemorate benefactors and benefactions. It is, I know, a poor 
compliment to so emiment a naturalist and botanist, the member of so many 
societies, to enrol him amongst our field folk ; and yet I cannot help thinking that, 
if we use the gift he has been instrumental in procuring for us aright, he may per- 
chance see some of the fruit of it; if not, carpent ea poma nepotes, or in simple 
English, ‘‘ the fruit of it will live after him.” 
I look to our friend Dr. Bull to take up this question more in extenso ; but I 
recommend to you, in passing, a plan which he has already broached to me in 
private, of circulating among garden-loving cottagers, through the medium of the 
parochial clergy, some of the young trees which, since Mr. Berkeley’s kind inter- 
yention, a local nurseryman has grafted for us, On this head I will only say that, 
