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Third Field Meeting, Tuesday, September i6th, 1856. 



ABERGAVENNY. 



On Tuesday, September i6th, the Third Field Meeting of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club was held at Abergavenny. A party of the members left 

 Hereford by the 8 a.m. train, and were joined by other members at the Tram Inn 

 station. On reaching Abergavenny, the members made their way to the Grey- 

 hound hotel, where they were met by Mr. E. Y. Steele and Dr. Bevan. After 

 breakfast, the Rev. J. F. Crouch, Rector of Pembridge, was called to the Chair, 

 in the absence of Mr. Hewett Wheatley, the President. 



The minutes of the last Meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. Flavell 

 Edmunds made (at the request of the Hon. Secretary) a brief report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Museum Committee, narrating the negotiations with the Philo- 

 sophical Institution, for the use of a part of their premises, in which to place the 

 collection designed to be made by the Club. The Institution had, however, fixed 

 the rent to be paid at £15, which sum the Committee considered to be much too 

 high, seeing that the Club would also have to bear the greater part of the salary 

 of a Curator. They had, therefore, come to the conclusion that it would be most 

 for the advantage of the Club to engage separate premises, and form their Museum 

 entirely independent of any other society. The Committee fiurther considered 

 that the nature of the proposed collection for which a great many specimens have 

 abready been promised, renders it desirable to have it in a place easily accessible to 

 the members and their friends ; and they believed that suitable premises might 

 be obtained for a moderate sum, and a qualified person may be engaged as Curator. 

 Of course, it was understood that the Museum would be, not a general collection, 

 but strictly a representation of the Natural History of the district, in the various 

 branches of geology, botany, zoology, ornithology, ichthyology, and entomology. 

 The visitor would thus be able to ascertain precisely the nature of the soil, the 

 rocks, the natural products, and the animals of the district. The Committee 

 had, of course, taken no steps beyond making enquiries. 



Some conversation ensued, in which the Chairman, the Rev. T. T. Lewis, 

 the Rev. W. S. Symonds, and other gentlemen took part ; and it was ultimately 

 agreed that the Committee (which conists of the President, the Hon. Secretary, 

 Rev. T. T. Lewis, Rev. J. F. Crouch, Mr. Lingwood, and Mr. Edmunds) be re- 

 quested to continue its inquiries, to take such steps as shall seem desirable, and 

 to report to the annual meeting in J anuary next. 



