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The Botanists present, attracted irresistibly to Mr. Edwin 

 Lees, had a delightful ramble under his special guidance. This 

 district is peculiarly his own. No one knows so well the locali- 

 ties of its rarest plants, and happUy no one knows how, with 

 better tact, to guard them from ruthless destruction. 



The whole party, some 60 or 70 strong, met to dine at the 

 Link Hotel, and such as could remain for the night were kindly 

 invited by Dr. Gbindkod to a soiree at Townshend House, when 

 his fine collection of Silurian fossUs was exhibited, and where 

 several very interesting papers were afterwards read. 



A day on the Malvern Hills — weather propitious — must 

 always be enjoyable, but with Mr. Stmonds to descant on the 

 rocks he loves so well, and Mr. Lees to explain all that grows 

 upon their surface — it would be strange indeed if this particular 

 Meeting should not ever be of pleasant memory to those who 

 had the good fortune to be present. 



Our Club, with, the others, may be considered to have been 

 on a visit to the Malvern Club, and it would ill become your Ee- 

 porter to trespass on the rights of hospitality. To those there- 

 fore who wish for more exact details of the day's proceedings and 

 the papers read, I must answer, Are they not written in the 

 Archives of the Malvern Club ? I don't think much real work 

 was done, and perhaps never is on such grand gatherings. All 

 present most thoroughly enjoyed the day, and returned home 

 with a store of information, and a renewed enthusiasm, let us 

 hope, to carry on the work of observation in their several 

 districts. 



I prefer asking you, on the present occasion, to leave 

 "Worcestershire, and come with me along the top of the hills 

 to our own Herefordshire Beacon, and descending by the long spur 

 called the "Eidgeway" leading from it to Eastnor Park, to visit 

 the Oak Tree upon which the Mistletoe grows so luxuriantly. 



