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Among the 61 gentlemen present at the dinner at the Green Dragon Hotel, 
Hereford, and others who joined the party during the day, we noticed the follow- 
ing :—The President, the Rev. Charles J. Robinson, Norton Canon; Sir William 
V. Guise, Bart., F.G.S., Elmore Court, Gloucester, President of the Cotswold 
Naturalists’ Field Club ; Edwin Lees, Esq., I’.L.8., F.G.8., &c., President of the 
Malvern Naturalists’ Field Club; Rev. William S. Symonds, F.G.S., Pendock 
Rectory, Tewkesbury, Vice-president of the Malvern Naturalists’ Field Club; 
Mr. C. E. Broome, F.L.8., &c., (Bath), Dr. Cooke, Dr. McNab (Dublin), Rev. 
William Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., &c. (Preston, Salop), Mr. Houghton, 
Major Houghton, Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Percival (Clifton), Mr. William 
Phillips (Shrewsbury). Mr. E. Pateshall, M.P., Mr. Charles B. Plowright 
(King’s Lynn), Mr. James Rennie (Rotherfield, Sussex), Mr. Worthington 
G. Smith, F.L.S. (London), Rev. J. E. Vize (Welshpool), Mr. O. Shellard 
(Mayor of Hereford), Mr. Joseph G. Alexander, Mr. Edward Alexander (Ciren- 
cester), Dr. Bull, Mr. Cam, Dr. Chapman, Dr. McCullough, Rev. J. F. Crouch, 
Rev. James Davies, Rev. W. C. Fowle, Rev. J. E. Jones-Machen, Mr. George 
Cocking, Mr. Timothy Curley, Rev. Canon Girdlestone (Gloucester), Mr. W. C. 
Gibson (Leamington), Dr. Davies (Ebbw Vale), Mr. F. W. Herbert, Mr. J. 
Bowle Evans, Captain Minshull Ford, Mr. H. A. Dean, Mr. W. Toms, Mr. 
Joseph Greaves, Rev. William Jones Thomas, Rev. A. G. Jones, Mr. Theo. Lane, 
Mr. H. C. Moore, ‘Rev. W. H. Mills, Mr. Fortey, Mr. C. Fortey, Mr. J. Griffith 
Morris, Mr. Morris, jun., Rev. G. M. Metcalfe, Rev. J. Norton, Rev. H. B. D. 
Marshall, Rev. H. W. Philott, Mr. James Rankin, Mr. Edwin C. Scobell, Mr. 
Lewis Sergeant, Rev. B. L. 8. Stanhope, Rey. F. C. Stebbing, Mr. J. F. Symonds, 
Mr. Reginald Symonds, Mr. W. A. Swinburne, Rey. Stephen Thackwell, Dr. 
Vachell (Cardiff), Rev. R. H. Williams, Rev. Arthur Young, Mr. R. Walker, 
Mr. Wheatley, Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer and Assis- 
tant Secretary. 
At the close of the repast, the President (Rev. C. J. Robinson) briefly pro- 
posed the health of ‘‘The Queen,” and then called upon Dr. Bull to give a local 
mycological report, and to read a short occount of “‘A Spring Foray at Whit- 
field”; after which the following paper was read: ‘‘ On the Colours imparted to 
Landscape Objects by Cryptogamic Vegetation,” by Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., 
and President of the Malvern and Worcester Naturalists’ Field Clubs. 
The following is a record of the apples and pears exhibited at Hereford in 
connection with the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club. 
When it was proposed last year that in future an exhibition of apples and 
pears should be held under the auspices of the Club, in connection with its usual 
annual display of fungi, it was admitted that the first exhibition would be simply 
an experimental one, to test the present interest taken in this and the adjoining 
counties and it has proved—both by the number of specimens of fruit exhibited, and 
the universal pleasure and satisfaction expressed by all who visited it—that the 
exhibition will become a popular one. One object of the Club will henceforth be 
to ascertain the correct names of the different kinds of cider, perry, cooking and 
