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Leinthall, and Cusop. It is intended to persevere with this subject, 

 and to present to the members a valuable series of pictures of the 

 trees themselves in the successive volumes of Transactions. 



To come now to the more ordinary proceedings of the year. 

 The club, by an arrangement with the proprietor of the Hereford 

 Times newspaper, decided for the future to publish a full account 

 of its meetings iu that paper. The type was afterwards to be re-set 

 in octavo shape for the Transactions. This arrangement was made 

 immediately after the Talgarth meeting, and has been fully carried 

 out. The duties of your President, therefore (as defined by Rule 

 VIII.), have been considerably lightened. I have now simply to 

 notice this change and give the reasons which induced the club to 

 adopt it. 



It might seem frivolous, at first sight, to give a more permanent 

 form to the common incidents of our excursions. It is not really so, 

 for independently of the associations, which this account in its fresh- 

 ness will carry with it to all who were present at the meetings, this 

 plan entirely removes every objection to the publication of the 

 papers read ; and thus, set in this simple framework, papers of much 

 local interest have been preserved, which would otherwise have 

 been lost. Our Transactions this year will contain no less than nine 

 addresses and papers on Geological subjects, five on Botany, and 

 five on Entomology and other general subjects. It is not my in- 

 tention, nor would it become me to criticise these papers, but I 

 should not do justice to them nor to myself, if I did not express my 

 belief that our volume of Transactions this year will not only be a 

 credit to our club, but will also prove a valuable contribution to 

 the Natural History and scientific knowledge of the County. 



The full publication of all our proceedings and papers has 

 moreover proved a most successful means of calling public attention 

 to the objects for which the Woolhope Club was formed ; of 

 spreading more widely an interest in the natural pioductions of our 

 county ; and therefore of actively promoting the study of natural 

 science in the district. Gentlemen, it seems to me that this too is 

 a result on which we can look back with satisfaction. The published 

 reports of our " field days" make people wish they had been with 

 us. The excursions themselves furnish us with a delightful recrea- 



