PKKSIDKNT S ADDRKSS. 



if a sufficient number willing to do so would send in their 

 names as subscribers. Its probable cost will be from 7s. to bs. 

 It may be less, I do not think it will be more. 



Fungology has for the first time for some years had a good 

 deal of attention from our members, foremost among whom I 

 must name our Hon. Sec, Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., who has 

 exhibited a large number of specimens and read instructive 

 papers describing them. Our venerable corresponding member, 

 the Kev. M. J. Berkeley, F.R.S., has communicated a paper on 

 " Underground Fungi," and Dr. M. C Cooke, not only 

 attended our first Fungus Foray — the commencement of what, 

 I trust, may prove to be a long series of annual gatherings 

 devoted to a like object, and which I hope may eventually be of 

 equal value and interest with those of the Woolhope Club — but 

 he contributed a paper on the occasion full ot good advice. 



Ornithology has had an excellent exponent in Mr. Chase, 

 portions of whose wonderful collection of British Birds, character- 

 istically mounted, have been exhibited publicly on several 

 occasions, while at our meetings he has read vis valuable papers 

 which he has illustrated by a great wealth of specimens. 



We have missed the presence of om- energetic member, Mr. 

 H. E. Forrest, w^ho for a long time worked most assiduously 

 among the microscopic objects of Fresh Water Life. He has 

 removed to a distance where he has been stirring up an interest 

 in the subject by popular lectures, and I trust dming the coming 

 year we may be favoured with some communicated paper from 

 his pen. Mr. Levick has not startled us by any discoveries 

 equal to his find of 1880 — Lejitodura hyallna, — but doubtless he 

 has a good reserve of surprises for his presidential year in that 

 marvellous aquarium of his, which has yielded so many rare 

 and curious objects for our meetings. 



Dr. Marshall's report on Fnnkulina is unquestionably the 

 most important paper read before the Society during the past 

 year ; and Mr. W. P. Marshall's drawings illustrating it are 

 among the very best produced by our members. I regard it as 

 honourable in the highest degree to our Society that it has 



