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M. C. Cooke, Esq., 2, Grosvenor Villas, Junction Road, Upper Holloway, 
London, N.; Rev. J. E. Vize, Forden Vicarage, near Welshpool, together with 
the President and Secretary of the Cardiff Naturalists Field Club, were unani- 
mously elected honorary members. 
At the close of the above business, a paper was read by M. C, Cooke, Esq., 
on “ The Structure and Functions of Paraphyses.” 
After dinner at the Green Dragon Hotel, the President briefly proposed ‘‘ The 
health of the Queen,” and then called upon Dr. Bull to give a ‘Sketch of 
mycology in Herefordshire,” who concluded by proposing the health of the 
honorary members and visitors, coupling with it the names of Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 
Dr. Hogg, and Professor T. W. Thistleton Dyer, to which they all three replied. 
After this a paper was read on “‘ Fungological Difficulties,” by the Rev. J. 
E. Vize. The majority of the members, &c., then adjourned by the kind invita- 
tion of Thomas Cam, Esq., to a soirée at his house, when additional papers were 
read by C. B. Plowright, Esq., on ‘‘ Fungi” ; Wm. Phillips, Esq., on ‘‘ Three rare 
Herefordshire Pezizas”; Worthington G. Smith, Esq., on ‘‘ The Reproductive 
Process in Boletus Subtomentosus ; and Worthington G. Smith, Esq., on ‘‘ A New 
Species of Urocystis on Gladiolus Corms.” 
The exhibition of apples and pears was on a much larger scale than last 
year, although the season was considered unfavourable. It consisted of 687 lots, 
besides the usual display of funguses, which was not quite so numerous in the rarer 
forms as usual, but included some very fine specimens. 
| A FUNGUS FORAY AT SHOBDON COURT, LEOMINSTER. 
During the past week many gentlemen distinguished in Mycological Science 
have been visiting our city to join in the ‘‘ Fungus Forays” of the Woolhope 
Club, which have now become so widely celebrated. On Friday, the 29th ult., on 
the invitation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire, the ‘‘ Foray” was fixed 
for Shobdon Court. The following gentlemen and ladies left by the 9.20 a.m. 
train for Kingsland :—Dr. Chapman (the President of the Woolhope Club), the 
Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Miss Berkeley, Dr. M. C. Cooke, James Renny, Esq., 
Worthington G. Smith, Esq., Arthur Smith, Esq., and Thomas Howse, Esq. 
(from London), the Rev. Wm. Houghton (Preston Rectory, Salop), Wm. Phillips, 
Esq. (Shrewsbury), Rev. John E, Vize (Forden, Welshpool), Edwin Lees, Esq. 
(Worcester), J. C. Kent, Esq. (Earl’s Croome), C. B. Plowright, Esq. (King’s 
Lynn), Dr. McCullough and Elmes Y. Steele, Esq. (Abergavenny), Edward 
Houghton. Esq., and Arthur Houghton, Esq. (Bath), Rev. James Davies and 
Miss Alice Davies (Moor Court), T. Walker, Esq. (Tonbridge Wells), Rev. E. 
Cunningham (Marnham, Newark) ; with the following ladies and gentlemen 
from Hereford: Dr. Bull, Mrs. Read. and Miss Bull; J. F. Symonds, Esq., and 
Miss Edith Symonds; Thomas Cam, Esq., J. Griffith Morris, Esq., and J. T. 
Owen Fowler, Esq. Lord Bateman kindly sent his omnibus to Kingsland, and by 
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