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" Hereforilshire Pomona." That such valuable work should be allowed to pass 

 unacknowledged in some substantial form, would cause a reflection on the County 

 of Hereford. But the Country generally has cause to be proud of such a work, 

 for it is, without doubt, the most splendid in artistic execution and fidelity in 

 design that has ever been produced upon this subject." 



We beg therefore to state that we shall be happy to receive any subscriptions 

 which may be offered to us for this jiurpose, and that they may be paid either to 

 us or to the Gloucestershire Banking Company, Hereford. 



C. G. MARTIN, 

 President of the Woolhope Natural istii Field Club. 



J. REGINALD SYMONDS, 

 Hon. Treasurer and Secretary to the Herefordshire Pomona. 



H. C. MOORE, 

 Honorary Secretarg to the Fruit Exhibitions. 

 THEOPHILUS LANE, 



Secretary to the Club. 



The Dean said he should be interpreting the wishes of those present if he 

 asked Lady Emily Foley to make the presentation. Mr. Henry Higgins seconded 

 the proposition, which was supported by Mr. Piper. 



Mr. Reginald Symonds (the hon. secretary) intimated that several letters 

 in explanation of inability to attend had been received. Dr. Hogg, in his letter 

 addressed to Ladj- Emily, said that after the considerable .share he had taken in 

 conjunction with the lamented Dr. Bull in the preparation of the Herefordshire 

 Pomona, it was a great disappointment to him not to be able to be present on 

 such an interesting occasion. It was very gratifying to him to know that so sub- 

 stantial a recognition of the devoted services Miss Bull and Miss Ellis had 

 rendered not only to their county, but to their country, by their illustrations to 

 the Herefordshire Pomona, which far excelled anything of the kind produced in 

 England, and which were in no way inferior to the efforts of the best artists of the 

 continent, had been secured. The other letters were from Lord Bateman, Sir 

 William Vernon Guise, Mr. J. Pulley, M.P., Mr. James Rankin, Mr. W. Henry 

 Barneby, Mr. B. St. John Attwood-Mathews, Mr. Edwin Lees (Worcester), Mr. 

 E. Caddick (Birmingham), Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, Rev. Prebendary Phillott, 

 Rev. C. H. Bulmer, Rev. J. E. Vize (Welshpool), Mr. James Davies, and 

 Mr. C. Rootes. 



Lady Emily Foley then read the following address, and gracefully made 

 the presentation : — 



The Herefordshire Pomona having now been completed, the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club, under whose superintendence it was brought out, and the 

 ladies and gentlemen, whose names are appended, from a wi.sh to manifest their 

 appreciation of the artistic ability and devotion displayed during eight successive 

 years by Miss Bull and Miss Ellis, who painted from Nature, solely for the love 

 of art, the original drawings for the necessary illustrations, have great pleasure in 

 requesting each of these ladies to accept a miniature portrait on ivory, of the late 

 lamented H. G. Bull, Esq., M.D., the learned general editor and originator of the 



