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except tlio olJ centrifugal one whicli he had enth-ely upset last year, aud which 

 Dr. Bull admitted was inadmissable. But in truth he had only stated facts 

 that were indisputable, and the diagi-ams he had exhibited, not only demon- 

 strated the impossibility of these diversiform shaped rings arising from a central 

 fungus, but presented figT.ires and waving lines that it appeared to him could 

 only be ascribed in their primai-y formations to the work of that little active 

 miner, the mole. Mr. Edmunds would not believe it unless he saw the mole 

 at work, and thus it was with all objectors ; their attention was mostly directed 

 to old rings occupied by funguses, or where there was a ring of brighter verdure 

 in the meadow from their decay. Now, the mole in the fiist instance turned 

 up the soil close to the surface, making a brown arc or ring, not occupied 

 by funguses until the year after ; and this primary brown ring of soil formed by 

 the mole seemed altogether overlooked by his friends on the other side, and to this 

 brown ring of uptiuned soil he would wish them particularly to look. He had 

 a few days since, when out with the "Worcestershire Club, suddenly come upon 

 several of these made by the mole that morning, and the sight of them gained 

 him a dozen proselytes at once ! He hoped, therefore, that they would look out 

 for these fresh rings of upturned soil, and carefully examine them "without 

 prejudice." These turned-up lines were undoubtedly molar work, though in 

 after years only a practised eye could trace the run of the mole in them, because 

 either coarse grass or funguses in their growth had filled up the furrow that 

 the mole had made. He had not gone forth into the field to make a theory on 

 Fairy-vings, but had noted everyring that had come under his notice for the 

 last thirty years ; and he thought that it would have been more reasonable in 

 the Club to accept his observations and conclusions, from observed facts carried 

 over a long period of time, than to make objections from a very superficial view, 

 with no other proposition to replace his own. Had the ciixles been all regular 

 and complete, some other mode of growth in the myceUa of the funguses might 

 have seemed possible, but with irregular rings of all sizes, where a iJerfeot 

 and complete ring was rare to find, the jirobability at least was in favour of 

 animal action ; and that the mole did make wavy Unes, arcs, and rings of various 

 dimensions in grassy pastures he maintained was indisputable. He would not, 

 however, press his own convictions upon an audience unwiUing to accept the 

 very important facts and statements that he had brought before them, and as it 

 seemed clear the Club were very much divided in opinion, and each member 

 had an idea of his own in the matter, he would not call for a formal decision, 

 but leave them to revel in the uncertainty they delighted in, though he was fully 

 convinced in his own mind, and was quite content to leave his ideas to future 

 patient and unprejudiced observation (applause). 



The Tresident gave the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Lees, He had 

 fought an up hill game valiantly, and they were indebted to him for a very 

 iateresting discussion (applause). 



