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ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Thursday, February 20TH, 1862. 



The General Annual Meeting of the Club was held at the Green Dragon Hotel, 

 on Thursday, 20th February. Present : Mr. Robert Lightbody, President, Mr. 

 George Cocking, and Mr. R. M. Lingvvood, Vice-Presidents ; Rev. J. F. Crouch, 

 Honorary Secretary, Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Dr. Bull, Mr. Thomas Cam, 

 Colonel Colvm. Rev. R. Dixon, Mr. R. Johnson, Rev. T. H. Lee Warner, Rev. 

 Chas. Smith, Mr. J. E. Smith, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer and Assistant 

 Secretary. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. John Jones Cleave, of Hereford, proposed at the last meeting, was 

 elected a member. 



Agreeable to notice given at the last Meeting by the Rev. J. F. Crouch, it 

 was resolved that the word " fifty " be struck out of Rule 2, and that of " or- 

 dinary " substituted. 



The Hon. Secretary presented the report of a deputation of the Club 

 appointed to confer with a deputation of the Herefordshire Philosophical, Literary, 

 Antiquarian, and Natural History Society, with a view of effecting the union of 

 the two Societies. It was explained that the joint deputations had passed a 

 resolution at their meeting on the 15th of January, to the effect that it was 

 desirable that the Woolhope Club should unite with the Herefordshire PhUo- 

 sophical Society, on terms to be hereafter arranged by the joint committees of 

 the two societies, and a prolonged discussion followed the presentment of the 

 report, which terminated in the following resolution, proposed by Mr. Chandos 

 Wren Hosk\Tis, seconded by Dr. Bull, and carried unanimously :— 



" Pending any further arrangements respecting a Museum of Herefordshire 

 specimens, geological, &c., that the Philosophical Society be requested to inform 

 the Committee of the Woolhope Club on what terms they would admit them to 

 a separate or joint use of the Museum-room." 



Resolved— That the name of Mr. R. M. Lingwood be added to the deputation. 



The Treasurer submitted a statement of the accounts for the past year, 

 which were unanimously adopted, showing a balance of £95 izs. 5d. in favour 

 of the Club, together with the following arrears :— los. for 1858, los. for 1859, 

 50s. for i860, and £10 los. for 1861, amounting altogether to £14- The bill of 

 £10 I2S. of Mr. William Phillips, for stationery and printing, was ordered to be 

 paid. 



