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 Ledbury (to meet the Malvern Club), on Thursday, May 22ND. 

 UsK, Thursday, June i2TH. 



Hereford, for Holme Lacy Station, Thursday, August 14TH. 

 Church Stretton (to meet the Oswestry Club), on Thursday, 

 September i8th. 



Resolved— That the Assistant Secretary be requested to wTite to the Rev. 

 W. H. Purchas, to request him to kindly favour the Club with any portion of the 

 Herefordshire Flora he may have ready for the press, so that it may be printed 

 with as little delay as possible. 



Resolved unanimously— That the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Thompson 

 as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Club merit its warmest acknowledg- 

 ments, and that he be requested to accept the sum of five pounds to expend in 

 any book or other article as to him may seem best, as a very slight mark of the 

 opinion entertained by the members of the importance of his services to the 

 Woolhope Naturalists' Club. 



THE ADDRESS 

 Of the retiring President, Robert Lightbody, Esq., read before the Members 

 of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, at their Annual Meeting, held in 

 Hereford, on Thursday, February 20th, 1862. 



Brother Members,— I am very much at a loss how to address you on this 

 occasion, as I feel strongly my incompetence to discharge properly the duties of 

 my position. It was very repugnant to my feelings to assume the responsible 

 post of your President, and I was only induced to do so because I felt that as a 

 member of your body, I was bound to take my share of its duties when called 

 upon by you. I trust, however, that in future you will be more fortunate in 

 selecting a leader who will be able to amuse and instruct you. 



In referring to the Field Meetings we have had during the past year, I may 

 express my regret that the first meeting at Ludlow was so unfortunate in some 

 of its circumstances. Though intended to be a joint meeting of the Malvern Club 

 and our own, our numbers came very short of what might have been anticipated— 

 principally in consequence of the railway trains from and to Hereford not suiting 

 our arrangements, though we were entitled to expect that in May the summer 

 passenger traffic would have been commenced. Another time, however, it 

 would be well to have our first meeting near Hereford, so as to avoid this annoy- 

 ance. 



Another point on which I would remark, is, that so few members of our Club 

 are sufficiently interested in Geology (which I think is our leading object), that 

 it is hardly wise to make arrangements, involving their passing a night from home, 

 thereby incurring expenditure of both money and time which may not be con- 

 venient to some of them. 



