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ready to take off his liat to it, and acknowledge it as a friend. It was no less 

 surprising to find, as little by little facts oozed out in conversation, that he was 

 practically acquainted with the stations of the rarer-flowering- plants of the county, 

 and could have given valuable information to anyone who encountered the local 

 Flora, and we have no doubt that the one In course of preparation will furnish 

 evidence of his knowledge of the subject. Further, how can we forget the 

 enthusiasm with which he went into the subject of old encampments ? By no 

 means an attractive one at first sight, and not associated in any occult manner 

 with either mushrooms or apples, and yet he communicated his enthusiasm to 

 others, and did not a little for the reputation of the county. In all these things 

 he manifested a pride in the old city and county of Hereford. ' There is one 

 more work,' he said to me last year, ' which I now hope to accomplish, and then 

 I fancy I have done, and may take my rest, and that is a catalogue of the Fungi 

 of Herefordshire. " Again, he said, ' I must get together all the notes I can for 

 the Fungi of Herefordshire. ' Together we spent many hours in comparing notes, 

 and latterly in compiling lists which were intended to be preliminary to carrying 

 out this design. His copy of the Clavis was noted for the county, and the idea 

 was gradually taking root in his mind that the next important work to which 

 he must devote himself should be this one. 'As soon as the arrears of the 

 Transactions are brought up,' he said, only last autumn, 'I must set to work in 

 earnest upon that catalogue of the Fungi of Herefordshire." It would not be so 

 difficult, with the material already in hand, as a nucleus, to carry out this, his last 

 design, which he was not spared to execute himself. But who can gather up 

 satisfactorily the threads of such an active life? I have only suggested some few 

 that have occurred to me, with the view of impressing, if need be, on younger 

 Woolhopeans how much may be done with promptitude, earnestness, and 

 perseverance, and how the business of an active life need be no obstacle to 

 much good work in other directions, in the advancement of human knowledge, 

 and leaving our own little corner of the world all the better when we are called 

 upon to leave it. 



" Footprints that perhaps another. 

 Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 

 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 

 Seeing, may take heart again." 



Hitherto we have been retrospective ; indeed, all our feelings have a tendency to 

 become retrospective, but, for all that, we must perforce attempt the prospective. 

 It should be to us a duty to look to-day towards the future as well as to the past, 

 and ask ourselves not so much on this occasion of the aspects and prospects of 

 the Woolhope Club, as of that portion of the operations of the club which are of 

 chief interest to us who attend this October meeting. It is true that it has been 

 stunned by a severe blow, but what of its recovery ? Is it to result in paralysis ? 

 We hope not. It will require extra vigour and energy to survive, and we ask if 

 that is to be wanting? It will be for the resident members of the club to 

 determine this for us, since it is the resident members on whom the responsibility 

 and the labour rest. An answer in tiie affirmative means as much as this — a 



