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Annual Meeting, Tuesday, February 14TH, 1S65. 



The Annual Meeting of the Members of the Club was held on Tuesday 

 February 14th, at the City Arms Hotel, in this City. In the absence (through 

 indisposition) of the President, the Rev. J. F. Crouch, of Pembridge, the Rev. 

 Charles Smith, of Tarrington, one of the Vice-Presidents, occupied the chair. 

 The officers were elected for the ensuing year as foUows :-President, Mr. E. Y 

 Steele, Abergavenny; Vice-Presidents, Dr. G. P. Bevan, Llanelen ; Mr. C W. 

 Hoskyns Harewood; Mr. R. M. Lingwood, Lyston ; Rev. H. C. Key, Stretton ; 

 Hon. Secretary, Mr. R. M. Lingwood ; Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. Arthur 

 Thompson, Hereford. 



The Meetings were fixed as follows :-First : Friday, May 19th.* at BuUth ; 

 second: Friday June 23rd. at Crickhowell; third: July; date and place left open 

 to make arrangements for joining with any other Club ; fourth : Friday, August 

 25th, t at Usk. 



After the Meeting, the Members dined together at the City .\rms, and in the 

 evening attended the soiree of the Herefordshire Philosophical. Antiquarian, and 

 Natural History Society, where, under the presidency of Mr. Wm. Aston, the 

 following papers were read:-" An Hour in the South Wales Coal Field," by Dr 

 G. P. Bevan, and "A Visit to some Extinct Volcanoes on the Contment of 

 Europe," by Mr. Edwin Lees, Honorary Member of the Woolhope Club. 



The statement of accounts ending February 14th, 1865, showed a balance in 

 hand at the Bank of £30 2S. 8d., and in hands of the Treasurer £3 los., with 

 investments in the Hereford Savings Bank of £37 6s. yd- It was resolved to 

 invest a further deposit of £20. 



Mr. Edwin J. Isbell presented his Meteorological Report for 1864, and gave 

 the foUowing list of instruments under his charge .-Barometer, Rain Gauge, 

 Wind Gauge, Ozone box, Sun-thermometer, the latter instrument perfectly 

 useless. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1864. 



The year 1864 was remarkable for its dry atmosphere and the number of its 

 fine bright days. The dryness, indeed, during the Months of April. May, June, 



'Afterwards altered to May 26th. 

 tAfterwards altered to Monday, August 28th. 



