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Mr. Worthington G, Smithy Rev. 

 G. Stevenson, M.A., of Glamis, 

 Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, Mr. Carrington 

 and others, made a most interesting 

 foray in the woods around Mon- 

 creiffe House, and Moncreiffe Hill ; 

 another party, under the leader- 

 ship of Col. Drummond Hay, and 

 including Dr. M. C. Cooke, F.L.S., 

 and Rev. J. Vize, explored the 

 woods around Scone with almost 

 equal success .; and others went in 

 various directions in the neighbour- 

 hood. On the following day the 

 members were engaged arranging in 

 the City Hall, Perth, the specimens 

 of fungi, &c., collected on the 

 previous day, for their first 

 annual exhibition. In the after- 

 noon the annual business meeting 

 was held — Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 

 Bart, (president) in the chair. It 

 was resolved that the next show be 

 held at Kelso in September, 1876. 

 The Duke of Roxburghe was 

 elected president. A large number 

 of new members were proposed and 

 elected, amongst the names added 

 to the roll being the Right Hon. 

 W. E. Baxter, M.P. for the Mon- 

 trose Burghs. Papers were read as 

 follows :— By M. C. Cooke, LL.D., 

 editor of Grevillea," London, on 

 ''Certain Scottish Fungi;" Mr. 

 C. P. Hobkirk, editor of the 

 Naturalist, Huddersfield, on Zy- 

 godon rupestris ; " Rev. J. Steven- 

 son, M.A., Glamis, on " The 

 Fungi of Scotland north of the 

 Tay ;" and by Mr. Stephen Wilson, 

 on ^'Ergots." — At seven o'clock 

 the members held their annual 

 dinner, at the Salutation Hotel 

 (Mr. Carmichael's). There were 

 about seventy gentlemen present. 



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Sir Thos. Moncreiffe, President, 

 occupied the chair ; and the crou- 

 piers were Dr. Buchanan White, 

 Perth (Secretary), and the Rev. J. 

 Stevenson, Glamis. Amongst others 

 present were — Col. Drummond 

 Hay, of Seggieden ; Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke, London ; Rev. J. Keith, 

 M.A., Forres; W. G. Smith, 

 London ; Rev. J. E. Vize, Forden, 

 North Wales; C. P. Hobkirk, 

 Huddersfield ; Sheriff - Substitute 

 Barclay ; and a number of local 

 gentlemen. After an excellent 

 dinner, which included various 

 kinds of edible fungi, and which 

 was done ample justice to, the 

 usual loyal and patriotic toasts were 

 given by the chairman and duly 

 honoured. The toast of the even- 

 ing, " Prosperity to the Cryptoga- 

 mic Society of Scotland," was pro- 

 posed by Dr. Cooke, after which 

 various other local toasts were given 

 and replied to. — The " Fungus 

 Show " in the City Hall, on the 

 Friday, was a great success — indeed 

 many eminent fungologists present 

 pronounced it to be the largest of 

 the kind ever known, it being esti- 

 mated that on the tables and walls 

 there were about 150,000 specimens. 

 A centre table contained a large 

 collection of the rarer and more 

 frequently met with fungi, all 

 named ; another table in front of 

 the platform was divided into 

 edible fungi and poisonous ones, 

 also all named; whilst the remainder 

 of the tables were crowded with 

 specimens gathered on the Wednes- 

 day, and others sent from other 

 parts of the county, among the 

 contributors being the Countess of 

 KinnouU, Lady Kinnaird, Duke of 



