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Wo0ll)opi> jaaturaltsts' Jfidb Ollub. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Tuesday, January 26th, i5 



The Annual Meecing was held in this City on Tuesday, January 26th, when 

 there was a numerous attendance of members. The Chair was occupied by the 

 Rev. J. F. Crouch, of Pembridge, the President, Mr. C. Lingen, being unavoid- 

 ably absent. The Hon. Secretary read the Minutes of the last meeting, after 

 which Mr. Charles Bodenham, of Rotherwas, who was nominated at a former 

 meeting, was elected a member. A Statement of Accounts was then submitted 

 to the meeting, and we are glad to observe that the funds of the Club show a 

 considerable surplus in hand. 



A highly interesting report was handed in by Mr. J. E. Smith, of the Infirmary, 

 who has kindly conducted the Meteorological observations for the Club from the 

 ist of June last. The very careful manner in which these observations nave 

 been made entitle Mr. Smith, not only to the thanks of the Club, which were 

 cordially voted to him, but also to the thanks of scientific men geneially, for 

 such an important contribution to the statistics of Meteorology. We are glad 

 to understand that Mr. Smith continues the observations for the ensuing year. 

 It appears that the observations have been taken twice in the 24 hours, and 

 that a general summary has been made out at the end of every month, a copy 

 of which has been forwarded to Mr. Glaisher and one to each of the Hereford 

 newspapers. 



Mr. Crouch read the following account of the 



LARGE PEAR-TREE AT HOLME LACY, 



By Rev. J. Green. 



" This tree consists of 18 immense branches, which, proceeding in all direc- 

 tions, as from one common centre and lying upon the ground, appear to have 

 broken themselves off, in consequence of their great length and weight, from 

 an original parent stem. At first only partly separating, they seem eventually 

 to have become rooted at the first point of contact with the earth, and then 

 completing the separation and rising again from the earth in a peculiarly twisted 

 shape, each branch has at length attained the bulk of a large ordinary tree. 



Although much of the tree has been cut away by former residents at the 

 Vicarage, the ground still covered by it measures 57 yards in one direction, and 

 in another, at about right-angles with it, 69 yards." 



The Rev. J. Green has, however, txaced it 65 yards in one direction and 

 103 yards in another, thus showing that at one time about 6,695 square yards 

 must have been covered by this enormous tree. 



