GHoolbope Naturalists’ Field Club. 
1882. 
THE annual meeting was held in the Woolhope Club Room on Thursday, 
April 13th. 
The financial statement for 1881 was read. 
A report of the progress of The Herefordshire Pomona was presented by Dr. 
Bull, together with the financial statement for part IV. 
A petition against the total abolition of Vivisection was laid before the 
meeting. 
The field meetings were fixed as follows : — 
Thursday, May 25th, in conjunction with the Malvern Naturalists’ Field 
Club, to visit The Golden Valley, for Arthur’s Stone, and the Churches of the 
Valley including Dore Abbey. 
Thursday, June 22nd—Coxwall Knoll and Brampton Bryan Park. 
Tuesday, July 25th (Ladies’ day)—Brecon, for the Brecon Beacons. 
Tuesday, August 22nd—Ford Bridge, for Ivington Camp. 
Thursday, October 5th—Hereford, for the Fungus Foray. 
After dinner, at the Mitre Hotel, the president, Rev. A. Ley, read, as his 
retiring address, a paper on ‘‘ Herefordshire Roses.” 
The following is the petition which was presented to the House of Commons, 
in accordance with the resolution passed at the annual meeting :— 
“Tus petition, from the members of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 
Herefordshire, humbly showeth that your petitioners fully believe that the 
restrictions already imposed, by law, on the practice of vivisection, present 
serious difficulties to the progress of Science for the benefit of human and animal 
life. 
“Your petitioners beg respectfully to remind you that in all country districts 
very painful vivisections on animals are continually performed, and are required 
as well for the safety and convenience of the public as for the profit of the breeders 
of animals and the producers of animal food; that the sports of hunting, shooting 
and fishing frequently cause great pains; and also that the furs, and feathers 
required for comfort and ornament, cause animals to be trapped and killed 
throughout the world, the feathers being frequently plucked from living birds. 
Now, since the production of all this widespread torture is by an almost unanimous 
voice agreed to be legitimate, your petitioners urge that the pain involved in 
