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so far as my experience goes, a petty freeholder, with his orchard of cider fruit, is 
avery likely man to harvest his fruit, make his cider, and then drink himself 
drunk upon it, doing no more work till he sees the dregs of his cask. But replace 
his cider apples with pot fruit or table fruit, and you at once point the way toa 
profit and a reserve fund. And in the case of a renting cottager, you probably 
point the way to the rent as well as something more. I myself once realised this 
fact—apropos of one of my own cottage lettings—in the evidence of a tenant in 
the Assize Court at Hereford. 
But I am wandering from our Honorary Members. Let Mr. Berkeley stand 
A 1 of the new list. After him come names well known to botanists—Mr. Broome, 
Mr. Rennie, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Plowright, and Mr. W. Phillips—and all names 
worthy of high reverence from us, who know how much light they throw upon our 
autumnal rambles in quest of what the uninitiated are disposed to regard as our 
chronic delusion. Be that as it may, we honour them, and rejoice if they deem 
that so small a token as our opening our ranks to admit them as Honorary 
Members, in any slight degree evinces it. If T might be allowed to suggest an 
additional Honorary Member or two—and I don’t think that such a suggestion is 
without precedent (for retiring Premiers make batches of baronets, and often a 
peer or two to boot)—I would suggest that in another portion of the field over 
which our society ranges we might do ourselves good service, and and pay withal a 
merited compliment to men like-minded with ourselves. The list of our archzolo- 
gists would be advantageously supplemented by the names of the Rev. W. 
Bevan, of Hay, joint editor with Mr. Phillott in the volume elucidatory of the 
Mappa Mundi, and the Rev. T. W. Webb, of Hardwick, the son of the most 
remarkable of Herefordshire antiquaries, and the competent editor of the works of 
his sire. I cannot help thinking that my congenial successor, during whose Presi- 
dency we are likely to break out freely into archeology, will aid and abet me in 
this proposition, and I ask those who cherish the old memorials of our forefathers 
in the district our club embraces, of their sympathy to support it. 
What I think in the retrospect of 1873-4 we have most lacked is a large 
and diversified supply of papers, to be read, or to be taken as read, and then printed 
in our transactions. In archeology this was very conspicuous, and if my able 
successor will direct his attention to the cure of it, I doubt not this fault will 
disappear. It is the same, however, with other and more primary branches of our 
society’s scope and object. With the exception of Mr. Rankin’s paper on Rodents 
at the last annual meeting, during the last year there have been few after-dinner 
papers read, except on the evening of our fungus feast, and on mycological subjects. 
Yet there are, I know, volunteers on ornithological subjects, on entomological (as we 
have seen in Mr. Lane to-day), and on botanical to any amount, who only want 
the assurance that we shall be glad if they would assist us in their own line, to take 
up some special feature, or section, or aspect of their favourite subject. Such 
papers are the germ of, or the vestibule to, more thorough compositions, and, if we 
could know it, many of our greatest works in science and literature were developed 
from the tentative and unpretending essay. 
