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a per centage of honest inquiry quite cheering to observe. It shows how rapidly 

 prejudice is giving way in the clubs at any rate. Was the St. George's mush- 

 room, .dsraWcM^^aniiosM*, the best? or the Fairy-ring mushroom, the Marasmi us 

 oreadea ? or the Agaricus arvensis, the horse mushroom ? Some thought one, and 

 some the other, and so opinions will ever vary, for each has its own peculiar 

 flavour, and different kinds of fungus will vary as much as different kinds of 

 other vegetables or fruits. 



Immediately after dinner, and the few complimentai'y observations deemed 

 necessary to the occasion, an excellent paper was read by Captain Serocold, of 

 the Malvern Club, on "The Compabative Flora of Northern Eukope and 

 Northern America including Iceland," which will be published at full length 

 in the Transactions of the INIalvem Club. 



This was followed by one of much thought, read by Mr. Bankin, the 

 President of the Woolhope Club. 



