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been made to recognise Dr. Bull's services to the Woolhope Club in some public 

 way. I cannot say what the proposal was, but it was firmly declined, and 

 Dr. Steele thus spoke :— " But, gentlemen, if Dr. Bull has set his face resolutely 

 against the acceptance of a substantial proof of our heartfelt acknowledgment, he 

 cannot entirely escape from the consequences of his own deeds, or smother the 

 feelings of regard, of admiration, and of gratitude for his courteous, indefatigable, 

 and successful efforts to i^romoto the usefulness and the welfare of our Association. 

 I know that in thus speaking of Dr. Bull I am only giving expression to the 

 sentiments of every member who has had the pleasure of meeting him in the field, 

 or has profited by his ever ready tongue, his facile pen and skilful pencil." 



It is hardly necessary for me to dwell on the signal services Dr. Bull has 

 rendered to our Club. Nor need I say one word of the gap, still keenly felt, 

 which his death has left in our ranks. But I may add my own personal testimony 

 to the impression which the character of our valued friend made on those who 

 had the pleasure of his friendship. He was not only respected and beloved ; he 

 was beloved, and is deplored. That was strikingly manifested by all classes on the 

 day of his funeral. During the last year it was my privilege to spend many hours 

 on several occasions with him, and I can truly say the more intimately I knew 

 him the more I esteemed him. His connection with our Club was not in any 

 sense of a perfunctory character. Not only was he the Editor of our transactions, 

 he was mainly the organiser of our Field Meetings. There was scarcely a 

 gathering of our members which he attended but was enriched by his communica- 

 tions, or was benefited by his remarks upon the communications of others. He 

 loved work, and the objects and aims of the Woolhope Club supplied him with 

 congenial work. One is amazed at the number of the contributions which he 

 found time to write during the brief intervals afforded by the scrujiulous and 

 punctual attention which he gave to the duties of his profession. He himself was 

 one of the foremost to acknowledge the generous services of Dr. Hogg, Mr. 

 Worthington Smith, and others in connection with the " Herefordshire Pomona," 

 but it was upon Dr. Bull more than anybody else that the preparation and 

 publication of that grand work devolved. There was, however, one special work 

 of the Woolhope Club where Dr. Bull reigned supreme. I allude to the annual 

 fungus forays. They were originated by him. They brought the Woolhope Club 

 into prominence among men of science, and for twenty years they brought men of 

 science to our city and county to engage in their pursuit. It is not an exaggeration 

 to say that nowhere else in England has Fungology been more systematically 

 studied than in Herefordshire. If you take up Dr. Cooke's " Handbook of British 

 Fungi," or his volumes of beautiful " Illustrations," or the Rev. John Stevenson's 

 recently published "British Fungi," the name of Dr. Bull, as the authority, is of 

 frequent occurrence. The habitats of vast numbers of the plants described and 

 delineated in those works are familiar to every member of the Woolhope Club. 

 The honour of all this must be ascribed to Dr. Bull. When a great leader of men 

 died nearly a century ago it was remarked by one of his adherents, " God buries 

 His workmen, but carries on His work." The work of the Woolhope Club, which 

 is according to its rules, " the practical study, in all its branches, of the Natural 



