Woolbopt jaaturalists' JFitlJ) CIuli. 



1885. 



The Annual Meeting: of this Chib was held on Thursday in the Club-room at the Free 

 Library, Hereford. The following meetings were fixed upon for the present year : — 



Tuesday, May 19th. — Llanvihangel, for Patricio and Gaer Camp. 



Thursday, June 18th. — Herefonl, for Aconburj' Camp and Priory. 



Thursday, July !)th (The Ladies' Day). ^Abergavenny, for the Sugar-Loaf 

 Mountain and the Castle Grounds. 



Thursday, August 27th. — Leominster, for Blackwardine and Risbury Camp. 



Thursday, October 8th. — Hereford, for the Fungus Foray. 



The general financial statements of the Club, and of the Herefordshire Pomona, 

 were laid before the meeting, and the ordinary business of the Club transacted. 



. The Rev. W. H. Lambert, of Stoke Edith, and Mr. C. P. Bird, of Drybridge 

 House, Hereford, were elected as members. 



The following gentlemen attended the meeting : — The Rev. C. Burrough, 

 President ; Mr. C. G. Martin, President elect ; Mr. H. Cecil Moore, Vice- 

 President ; Mr. Henry Wilson, President of the Malvern Clul) ; Drs. Bull and 

 Chapman; the Revs. W. Horton and H. B. U. Marshall; Messrs. F. Bainbridge, 

 J. Carless, jun., J. Docking, G. H. Piper, C. Rootes, O. Shellard, and Theopliilus 

 Lane, Secretary. 



THE FINANCIAL ST.\TEMENT OF THE HEREFORDSHIRE 

 POMONA. 



In the original prospectus of The Herefordghirc Pomona, the Woolhope Club 

 announced that "it was not intended to make any profit from the work. The 

 "whole money subscribed would be spent on the publication, and, therefore, the 

 "greater number of subscribers there were, the more valuable could each Part be 

 "made by additional jilates." This promise has been faithfully kept, and there 

 is thus no want of delicacy in giving some details as to its actual cost. The work 

 has grown so much in size in the course of its production that it has greatly 

 exceeded the original ideas of the promoters. The first part contained six coloured 

 plates, and in the succeeding parts the number advanced to eight, ten, twelve, 

 twelve, thirteen, and in the present concluding part the number given is sixteen. 

 There is a corresponding increase in the letter-press ; and as a matter of course 

 a proportionate increase in the cost of production. No trouble has been spared, 

 nor any expense necessary, to produce the work in an accurate and artistic style. 

 With such rapid increase in size, and so well brought out, it could not be expected 

 to be remunerative at the price at which it has been issued, and it has not been so. 



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