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the hyaena, the mammoth, the gigantic Irish deer, the long-haired rhinoceros, the 

 bison, and the fossil horse. Chert and silurian rock implements made by the 

 hand of man, cores or nuclei and flakes and chips of chert were also found by Mr. 

 Symonds near the entrance of the cave. The hill-top is termed " King Arthur's 

 'Hall," and on the summit there is an ancient camp : the hyaena den is known as 

 " King Arthur's Cave ; " this has been considerably but not completely explored, 

 and there are other caves in the district which have not yet been explored or ex- 

 cavated at all. Dr. Bull entertained a considerable number of the party at dinner 

 in the evening, where one of the invited guests did not put in an appearance till 

 dinner was nearly over. It was the man who \rished the boat had been upset, 

 and he did not come to dinner, he said, because he had himself either fallen into 

 " a reverie " or into " the river-y," no one could exactly make out which. 



On Wednesday, October 2, the party went in sections, the larger to the 

 fruitful woods of Dinmore, the smaller to the castle and ancient Norman church 

 of Kilpeck and the churches and river g^ravels of Lug\vardine, Hagley, and 

 Wilcroft. The river gravels were visited with a view to the possible discovery 

 of relics similar in nature to the antiquities from the caves, but nothing what- 

 ever was found. The churches and churchyards were of interest, Kilpeck being 

 remarkable as one of the best and purest Norman structures in this country. 



After dinner there was a meeting at the Museum from 8 to 10 p.m., to set 

 out the Doward Hill and Dinmore specimens, and to arrange, name, and discuss, 

 the species exhibited. Tliere were no apples and pears this year, and in one way 

 this was a good thing, as the delicate aroma given oflE by certain fungi was not 

 overpowered by the graWd smell given out by Louise Bonne and Marie Louise 

 pears and Gloria Mumli apples. The Rev. W. Elliot, the secretary of the 

 Caradoc Club, sent a good collection of one very handsome (and elsewhere rare) 

 species of Hi/rirophorus caliiptrceformis ; an anonj-mous donor (supposed to be the 

 chaplain) sent a cork out of a port-wine bottle covered with the well-known cellar- 

 fungus, Zasmidium cellare. The London publicans get up an imitation of this 

 fungus, for if one goes to a tavern to get a bottle of fine old Is. 3d. " Comet " 

 port, the tavern-keeper commonly produces a bottle covered with the "false 

 Zasmidium" which is no other than a mixture of dirty old spider-webs, soot, and 

 sawdust — this variety, we may remark, never produces spores. On the Museum 

 table were the rare Polyporus intyhaceus, the more common oak (P. dryadeus), a 

 doubtful P. borealis, and many other plants belonging to the genus Polyporus. 

 The sweet-scented Lackirius glyeiosmus, the soap-scented Agaricus saponaceus, A. 

 frarjrans, with an odour like Melilot ; A. radicosus, smelling like a linseed-meal 

 poultice ; Hygrophorus cossus, with the potent perfume of the he-goat ; and the 

 black H. mctapodius. One of the best botanical species was the red-topped Russula 

 lepida, Peziza succosa, with its yellow juice ; P. sinuosa, with its purple juice • 

 the green Geoglossum viridc, Thelcphora anthoccphala and caryophyllca, the latter 

 hardly so named because it is "clove-coloured," but, rather, because it is exactly 

 the same in shape as the flower of a large Dianthus. Amongst possibly new plants 

 were Agaricus innoeuus and Cortinarius arenatus. 



