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at00lbope jaaturalists' Jidtr Club. 



Fourth Field Meeting, Thursday, September i8th, 1862. 



CHURCH STRETTON. 



JOINT MEETING with the DUDLEY and the OSWESTRY 

 FIELD CLUBS. 



This meeting was well attended. The Dudley FIELD CLUB brought a 

 party of twenty-three, and the Oswestry Naturalists' Field Club brought six 

 members. 



Of the Woolhope Club there were present : the two Vice-Presidents, Mr. 

 R. Lightbody and Mr. R. M. Lingwood ; Rev. J. F. Crouch, Honorary Secretary ; 

 Colonel Colvin, Revs. Thos. Hutchinson, J. De LaTouche, J.J. Miller, Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds. President of the Malvern Club ; Messrs. Thos. Blashill, J. W. Colvin, 

 H. J. Jenkins, H. Salwey, — Watkins, and Arthur Thompson, Treasurer and 

 Assistant Secretary. Visitors : Rev. A. Pelham and Miss Hodgson. 



Amongst the business transacted Mr. Richard Hereford, of the Moor, Here- 

 ford, was elected a member. 



A letter from Dr. Bull was read, asking foi further information for The Flora 

 of Herefordshire from the following Districts, from which our information was 

 very deficent, in the order as below : Frome (6), Bromyard (5), Golden Valley 

 (13), Kington (11), and Black Mountains (14). Dr. Bull offered to receive and 

 examine for Mr. Purchas any collections from any of the above Districts. 



Dr. Bull asked for authority to proceed with the publication of a Map of the 

 County divided into Botanical Districts, and the General Introduction, &c. £$ 

 was voted for the Lithographic Map.* 



The large party divided and took routes as recommended in the programme 

 as follows : — 



The route recommended for the Longmynd party was up the " Ashes Valley " 

 from Little Stretton, which gives a fine section, and some of the Arenicolites at 

 Yearling Hill, just before crossing the first side dingle on the right ; thence up 

 the Pole Hill, for the extensive view of the surrounding formations, descending to 

 Stretton by the Spout Valley and Carding Mills. 



* For the Map, divided into 14 Botanical Districts, see frontispiece. Vol. Transactions, 1866. 

 The Map also forms the frontispiece of " The Flor.i of Herefordshire," published in 1899. 



