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ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Tuesday, January 23RD, 1855. 



The Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, January 23rd, in tieretord. 

 The Rev W S. Symonds, Rector of Pendock, as the outgoing President, occupied 

 the Chair at the opening of the business, and there were also present : Rev. 

 T. T. Lewis, Rev. J. F. Crouch, Rev. T. Hutchinson, Dr. Bull, Mr. H. Salwey, 

 (Ludlow), Mr. Hewett Wheatley, Mr. Suter, Hon. Sec, Mr. FlaveU Edmunds, 

 Mr. A. Thompson. 



The Secretary read a statement of the accounts, from which it appeared 

 that after piirchasing a set of Meteorological Instruments, with which Mr. Wheat- 

 lej' has kindly consented to make a series of observations, there is still a handsome 

 balance m hsuid. 



The subject of printing a collection of the papers read at the Meetings 

 of the Club having been discussed at some length, it was resolved that the 

 address of the late President, the paper of Mr. Wheatley on the Salmonidse, 

 and a statement of the Botanical proceedings of the Club, be at once printed, 

 so as to be ready for delivery to the members on or before the first Field Meeting, 

 which is to take place in June next. The Chairman, on behalf of the Malvern 

 Club, invited the members to meet that Club at Malvern in June. 



The invitation was accepted, the fixing of the date being left to the Kev. 

 W. S. Symonds, he being also President of the Malvern Club. 



Dr. S. Steele and Mr. Clarke, of Abergavenny, were unanimc^usly admitted 

 members. Four other gentlemen were nominated. 



It was resolved that, in future, non-payment of subscriptions for a period 

 of three years shall e.xclude from membership. 



The President delivered his address : — 



Address delivered January 23RD, 1855, 



By Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., President. 



Gentlemen, — Three summers have passed away since the Naturalists of 

 the Woolhope Club met for the first time, on a May morning, at Tarrington, to 

 explore that Silurian Valley of Elevations whence this Club takes its title. Since 

 that period we have experienced the storm as well as the sunshine, and our 

 little society has not been exempt from the vicissitudes which it is the lot of man 

 while here below to meet with. The bust of our departed friend (the late Mackay 

 Scobie, Esq., formerly Honorary Secretary to the Society), presented by those 



