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the services of Mr. Edwin Lees, Vice-President of the Worcester and Malvern 

 Field Clubs, and of Mr. Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S., of London, were enlisted 

 for naming the various funguses found. The " Clavis Agaricinorum " by Mr. 

 Worthington G. Smith, was published in the Woolhopc Transactions for 1869, and 

 since that period the Forays have been conducted annually. Paying a tribute to 

 the memory of the late Mr. Broome, and of the lately deceased Rev. J. M. 

 Berkeley, the Father of British Mycology, Dr. Cooke considered " The Introduc- 

 tion to Cryptogamio botany," jjublished by Mr. Berkeley in 1857, a perfect 

 encyclopaedia for those times. His "Outlines of British Fungology," 1860, was a 

 good book, nothwithstanding the very unfavourable circumstances under which 

 it was written, seeing that the author was limited and cramped in every direction, 

 being obliged to confine so much material into a limited number of jjages ; in fact 

 the book was "written to order." Cooke's "Handbook of British Fungi" appeared 

 in 1871. A passing reference was made to numerous other works, with a modest 

 omission of several from his own pen, notably "A jjlain and easy account of 

 British Fungi," 2nd edition, 1871, Hardwicke. "Fungi, their nature, influence, 

 and uses," International Scientific series, 2nd edition, 1875. "Rust, smut, mildew, 

 and mould," 4th edition, 1878, Hardwicke. That useful book, dedicated to 

 Dr. Bull and the officers and members of the Woolhope Club, " The diseases of 

 field and garden crops, " by Worthington G. Smith, was published in 1884. An 

 especially favourable mention was made of the recent addition of " A manual of 

 the British Discomyoetes," by William Phillips, published in the International 

 Scientific Series, and still more recently a book which was much wanted, " The 

 Uredinese and Ustilaginese," by Charles B. Plowright. Of the " Illustrations of 

 British Fungi," from his own pen he reported that the 72nd part was now com- 

 plete, forming seven volumes containing twelve liundi-ed drawings ; and to bring 

 the literature of a kindred branch of botany up to the present date there should 

 be mentioned the "Fresh Water Algse,'' which would be issued in the Inter- 

 national Scientific Series, at the beginning of 1890, another of his own books. 

 Dr. Cooke congratulated the Woolhope Club upon the taste, arrangement, type, 

 and composition of the publication "The Flora of Herefordshire." As regards 

 the 483 species of the larger Agarics in Order 1, as therein recorded, he called the 

 attention of members to the fact that, since 1,334 British si)ecies had been already 

 described, there yet remained 851 for them to discover ; and they must look to 

 their laurels, for the Essex Field Club had already recorded 410. Drawing a 

 comparison, he had to report that the Woolhope Club on Tuesday had found 86 

 species at Downton Castle ; on Wednesday 68 at Dowijton Hall, in Shropshire ; 

 and to-day, at Dinmore Hill, 60 species ; whereas in Epping Forest, a few days 

 ago, 108 species had been found in one day, and on the following day 29 more, or 

 a total of 137 species. 



In the evening the members met, by invitation, at the house of Mr. Cam, 

 where some papers were read. 



On Friday, October 4th, the grounds of Lady Emily Foley were visited. 

 Notwithstanding the general scarcity of funguses, it was satisfactory, on summing 

 up the results of this year's foray, to report that altogether seventeen additions were 



