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ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Tuesday, January 32nd, 1856. 



Oa Tuesday, January 22nd, the Annual Meeting of the Members of this 

 Club was held at the house of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Suter, in Bye Street, in 

 this city. The Rev. J. F. Crouch, the President, occupied the Chair. After 

 the usual routine business had been transacted, five candidates were balloted 

 for, and elected members. The President then delivered a highly interesting 

 farewell address, detailing the operations of the club during the year, which the 

 members unanimously requested the President to allow to be printed in connexion 

 with the papers of the Club. 



Mr. Flavell Edmunds proposed that Mr. Hewett Wheatley, the eminent 

 Ichthyologist, should be elected President for the ensuing year. The proposition 

 was seconded by Mr. Suter, Hon. Sec, and supported by the Rev. T. T. Lewis, 

 Dr. Bull, Mr. Lingwood, and other gentlemen, and unanimously agreed to. 



Mr. Wheatley, having taken the Chair, votes of thanks were passed to the 

 late President and to the Hon. Secretary (who was unanimously requested to 

 continue his valuable services). On the motion of the Rev. J. F. Crouch, a 

 Committee was appointed to consider the propriety and feasibility of forming a 

 Museum to be devoted exclusively to the Natural History of the County. The 

 Field Meetings were appointed to be held at Bromyard on June 3rd ; at Kington 

 July 29 ; and at Abergavenny on September gth. It was considered desirable 

 that a bye-day should be appointed for the month of August, to enable the 

 members to visit the meeting of the British Association at Cheltenham in that 

 month. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, Rev. J. F. CROUCH. 

 January 22nd, 1856. 



Gentlemen of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, — The time has arrived at 

 which I am called on to resign the very honourable position to which you raised 

 me a year ago, and to give some short account of the proceedings of our Club 

 during that period, in obedience to the requirements of our eighth rule. This 

 duty I could have wished to have fallen into abler hands than mine. I will not, 

 however, waste more time than is necessary in apologies for inefficiency, of which 

 I have too often been conscious, but offer my best thanks for your kindness to 

 me, and proceed at once with my statement. 



Firstly. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that our finances are in a 

 healthy state on the whole. We have not yet thought it expedient to put the 

 twelfth rule into force, but in justice to ourselves and candidates for admission 



