0rrllj0p^ Jiatiiralists' JiM Club, 



April 4th, 1883. 



Thk Annual Meeting of the Woolhope Club took place on the 4th inst., in the 

 Club-room, at the Free Library. Present — Mr. Thomas Blashill (the President, 

 and in the Chair), Messrs. Cam, Griffith Morris, Kempson, Shellard, Burlton, 

 Moore, Southall, James Davies, and Docking ; the Revs. R H. Cobbold, F. S. 

 Stooke-Vaughan, V. T. T. Orgill, and H. B. D. Marshall ; and Drs. Bull and 

 Chapman ; who were afterwards joined by Sir John Maclean, Mr. James Rankin, 

 M.P., Messrs. Pateshall, Colt-Williams, J. F. Symonds, Joseph Carless, Levason, 

 Peyton Levason, Shaw, and the Rev. Hargreaves Heap. The financial statement 

 for the year was read, and ordered to be entered on the minutes. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Club : — Sir Harford J. 

 Jones Brydges, Bart., Captain de Winton, the Rev. P. H. Strong, and Mr. S. K. 

 Matthews ; and four others proposed for election at the next meeting. 



The following places were ne.xt fixed upon for the Field Meetings of the 

 present year : — 



Ledbury and Wall Hills— Thursday May 24th. 



Caplar Camp and Oldbury Hill — Friday, June 22nd. 



Stratford-on-Avon— Ladies' Day — Thursday, July 12th. 



Cainham Camp and Titterstone Clee — Thursday, August 23rd. 



Fungus Foray — Thursday, October 4th (the locality hereafter to be decided 

 upon). 



The financial statement of the Herefordshire Pomona was then presented and 

 read, and it was reported that the drawings for Part VI. and the accompanying 

 letterpress were all in course of publication. 



The dinner took place at the Green Dragon Hotel, and was necessarily the 

 more quiet since the papers were reserved for the evening. 



An evening reception was held at the Free Library, to which the Mayor and 

 members of the Corporation were invited, together with as many other guests as 

 the room would conveniently accommodate. The Library being closed on Wed- 

 nesday, the whole space of the institution was available for the occasion. The 

 Woolhope Club Room has recently been fitted with glazed bookcases covering each 

 end, and with a series of glass cases along the back for the exhibition of fossils. 

 This not only gives the room a very handsome appearance, but it provides the 

 improved and increased supply of bookshelves which were so much required for 

 the Library. Many of the books are very valuable, and they will now be more 

 carefully preserved than was possible before ; and the fossil cases were equally 

 necessary to exhibit the many local fossils of the district for study, and for the in- 



