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THE WORCESTER FORAY. 
September 19th to September 24th, 1921. 
The twenty-fifth annual meeting and autumn foray took place 
at Worcester, at the invitation of the Worcestershire Naturalists’ 
Club, from September rgth to 24th, 1921. 
A few members of the party assembled during the previous 
week-end, and on the Sunday Mr Carleton Rea arranged a short 
expedition in the Malvern district. The party travelled to 
Malvern Link by motor-bus, and then walked down the Cowleigh 
Road to Cowleigh Wood. Subsequently a visit was made to 
Croft Wood, which is just over the border in Herefordshire. The 
return journey was made through Great Malvern. This expe- 
dition provided quite a number of species with which to start 
the week’s work. 
As usual the majority of the members assembled on the 
Monday evening and were welcomed on their visit to Worcester- 
shire by the Vice-President (Mr F. T. Spackman, F.G.S.) and 
members of the Worcestershire Naturalists’ Club at a conver- 
sazione in the Art Gallery at the Victoria Institute, Worcester. 
In the morning of Tuesday, September 2oth, a council meeting 
was held, and this was followed in the evening of the same day 
by the annual general meeting. 
Mr F. T. Brooks, M.A., was elected President for 1922, and 
Dr E. J. Butler was chosen to fill the vacancy thus caused in 
the Council. 
In place of the two members retiring according to rule, 
Professor O. V. Darbishire and Mr C. H. Grinling were elected 
members of the Council. The other officers were re-elected. 
It was decided to hold the autumn foray in 1922 at Keswick, 
and to arrange the period to include a week-end, if possible 
that of September 16th—17th. 
Mr W. N. Cheesman was appointed delegate of the Society 
to the British Association meeting at Hull. 
The whole of Tuesday was taken up by an expedition to 
Wyre Forest. The party took train to Cleobury Mortimer, and 
after a short walk along the road entered Weston Firs and 
Weston Plantation. After lunch Coachroad Coppice and the 
open ground adjoining Furnace Mill were visited, and then the 
path along Dowles Brook was followed as far as Wyre Forest 
Station, whence the return journey was made. Owing to the 
exceptionally dry summer the forest was not as rich in fungi 
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