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Second Field Meeting, July 20th, 1852. 



The Second Field Day of this Club for the present (its first) season wivs held 

 on Tuesday, July 20th. The district of country selected was not only of great 

 scientific interest, but of surpassing picturesqueness ; and the unbroken fineness 

 of the day in agreeable contrast with the intermitted rain of the first day of 

 meeting, heightened the natural beauty of the district, while it afforded abundant 

 opportunity for carrying out the scientific objects of the trip. Altogether the 

 meeting was a highly successful one ; a delightful mingling of amusement with 

 instruction. 



At seven o'clock a.m., a party of nine members, residents in Hereford, started 

 (in a stage coach, supplied for the occasion by Messr.s. Bosley) for the village of 

 Whitchurch, midway between Ross and Monmouth. At Harewood End they 

 were joined by Mr. R. M. Lingwood, the esteemed President of the Society. 

 After a pleiusant ride of 1(! miles in the balmy air of the morning, the fierce heat 

 of July being tempered by a cloudy sky, the party reached VVliitchurch shortly 

 before nine o'clock. Here they were much gratified to find, already arrived, several 

 of their most distinguished honorary Members: Sir Roderick I. Murchison, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. ; Mr. H. E. Strickland, F.G.S., Lecturer on Geology to the 

 University of Oxford ; and the Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S, of Foleshill, Warwick- 

 shire. Shortly afterwards other members arrived and the routine business of the 

 Club was proceeded with. Two new members having been admitted, the Hon. 

 Secretary, Mr. M. J. Scobie, F.G.S., of Hereford, read the subjoined invitation 

 which he had received from Mr. R. Blakemere, to visit hus estate at the Leys, but 

 which the Club had been unable to accept : — 



The Leys, Monmouth, 9th July, 1852. 

 Sir, — I beg to say that it will afford me much gratification to render my 

 Doward Hill, the iron tower upon it, and the grounds attached to it, accessible to 

 yourself, .and to the Members of " The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club " on the 

 visit you have requested to be allowed to pay to them on the 20th inst , for the 

 purpo.se of making geological and botanical investigations. 



Allow me to add that should my state of health permit me personally to 

 receive the visit, I shall have much pleasure in doing so, and in drawing the 

 attention of the visitors to some interesting localities connected with the objects of 

 their pursuit. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



With much respect, 



RICHARD BLAKEMERE. 

 To M. J. Scobie, Esq. 



