glorified so as to embrace the botanical districts of Herefordshire in its name," 

 and he goes on to say, what is of much interest to our club : 



In my new edition of " Siluria " you vn\l find that I make the clean sweeping out of 

 the Woolhope Valley a stronger argument than ever against slow and ordinary causes of 

 such a denudation. Whilst the true order and succession of our older formations is now 

 well made out, I see little that is stable in the explanations of superficial detritus ; and I 

 feel conti Jeut that the theory of kingdom glaciers (universal ?) is far too wild and 

 untenable. 



Wishing you a merry and instructive meeting, I am, ever yours sincerely, 



10, Belgrave-square, July 17, lS(i7. Rou. I. MuncnisoN. 



Then, that eminent practical geologist, Mr. Etheridge, thinks so highly of 

 it, that he requested a copy might be sent to the Library of the Museum of 

 Practical Geology in Jermyn-street, and I hold in my hand a letter conveying 

 "the best acknowledgments of my Lords of the Committee of Privy Council on 

 Education on behalf of her Majesty's Government," for the copy which was sent 

 there. "Without troubling you with the polite remarks of more ordinary people, 

 I will only add that the acknowledgments of the other Naturalists' Field Clubs 

 to which it has been sent, have been accompanied almost unanimously with an 

 expression of warm congratulations on our being able to bring out so goodly a 

 volume, I will now ask the Honorary Secretary to show you the rare Here- 

 fordshire wild flowers he has brought with him for the purpose. 



The Rev. Geo. H. Coenev/all said he had brought some plants both 

 living and dried, which he thought would interest them. The first he would 

 direct their attention to, was a pot of the Wahlenbergia hedcracea, the pretty 

 little ivy-leaved bell-flower. It was one of the most elegant and graceful of our 

 wild flowers. He had grown the plant as they saw it for two years, having dug 

 it up with the turf at Moccas, and he believed it did not grow anywhere else in 

 the county. 



The Rev. R. H. "Williajis said that it grew also on an outlying part of 

 Herefordshire on the Clee hills. 



Mr. CORNEWALL then exhibited in a pot a very fine grown specimen of 

 the Holly Fern, the Polystichum Lonck'tis, which he had gathered himself 

 on Ben Lawers and had since grown it in his greenhouse without difiiculty. He 

 brought it to show them how very distinct its characters really were, and how 

 little resemblance there was between it and the Polystickum Iclatum, which 

 some people fancied the same thing. The dried plants he had brought were 

 from the Moccas Park pool. They were the Ranunculus lingua, the greater 

 spearwort, and the Utricularia vulgaris, the great Water Milfoil, or Bladderwort. 

 He did uot think either of these plants grew in any other district of the county, 

 and he had brought specimens of them in case any gentleman wished to add 

 them to their collection. The Utricularia grew very plentifully in the pool this 

 year, but it was some years now since he had been able to find it there. 



Dr. Bull said it was a great pleasure to himself and to all the botanists 

 present to see so many rare Herefordshire plants. He thought Moccas must be 

 a very favoured district. He was also happy to be able to introduce to them 

 another plant new to Herefordshire. They had long sought in vain for the 



