our old Malvero friends of the Woolhope being the senior Club represented at this joint 

 meeting. I took advantage of the occasion to give a cordial greeting to our new friends 

 from Bath, which was in very kind terms acknowledged by Col. St. Aubin, who expressed 

 a wish to see the members of the Malvern and Woolhope Clubs breaking ground on the 

 banks of the Avon, where a hearty welcome would be given to them by the Bath Naturalists. 

 I thanked Mr. Sjauonds and Mr. Lees for the great benefits they had each so often con- 

 ferred upon us by freely dispensing the fruits of their researches and being ever ready 

 to lend a helping hand to the learner, and to contribute to the pleasure and success 

 of our meetings. Mr. Symonds and Mr. Lees, each in his accustomed style and manner, 

 responded most cordially to the deserved compliment. Then Mr. Lees read a most elabor- 

 ate and well digested address on "The aims and duties of Naturalists' Clubs." This paper 

 which has been published in the proceedings of the Malvern Club will well repay a perusal. 

 I need hardly say to those who are acquainted with the WTitings of this Veteran Philoso- 

 pher, that it is at once poetical and logical, brimful of thought, flavoured with a quauit 

 originality, bespeaking a fervid imagination and a cultivated taste. At the close of Mr. 

 Lees' address, Mr. T. E. Harman was prepared to read a paper on ' Macaria liUirata and 

 Coremia quadrifasciaria,' .two Lepidoptera new to Herefordshire, as, however, the time 

 had arrived for the Woolhopeans to regain the station on their return homewards, this 

 paper was taken as read. I have the kind sanction of Mr. Harman to its being printed in 

 the next volume of our transactions. This closed a very interesting meeting which, but 

 for the gloom cast upon us by the chilling mists of a fractious atmosphere, would 

 have been both cheerily and profitably enjoyed. 



Members and visitors of the Woolhope Club present on the Malvern Field Day: — 

 Elmes Y. Steele, Esq., President ; the Rev. J. G. Smith ; the Rev. Thomas Phillips : 

 the Rev. J. H. Jukes ; the Rev. G. B. Bennett ; the Rev. H. B. Marshall ; the 

 Rev. H. C. Key ; Rev. R. H. WiUiams ; Rev. F. S. Stooke ; Dr. George ; Mr. J. 

 W. Lloyd ; Mr. T. J. Salway ; Mr. T. Cmley, C.E. ; Mr. C. G. Martin ; Mr. W. 



D. Banks ; Mr. John Lloyd ; Mr. Hugh P. Davies ; Mr. W. A. Swinbm-ne ; Mr. F 



E. Harman ; Mr. D. Lawrence ; Mr. F. W. Herbert ; Mr. Arthur Thompson, Assistant 

 Secretary and Treasurer. 



Members of the Malvern Field Club present : — Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., &c.. Presi- 

 dent ; Rev. W. S. SjTnonds, F.G.S., Vice-President; Rev. H. P. Hill, Honorary Secretary ; 

 Rev. A. Faber, Principal of Malvern College ; Rev. F. J. Eld ; Rev. C. J. Bowles ; Rev. J. 

 H. Thompson ; Mr. E. G. Stone, Chambers Court ; Mr. J. Empson, Ripple Hall ; Dr. Weir, 

 Hilary Hill ; Mr. R. Smith ; Mr. Velin Clarke ; Mr. E. B. Fitton ; Mr. E. R. C. Hayes ; Mr. 

 A. Brown ; Mr. H. Cross ; Mr. J. S. Burrows ; Mr. R. J. Severn Walker ; Mr. Stephen Ballard ; 

 Mr. W. H. Dawson ; Mr. J. Wood ; Mr. J. Mackay ; Mr. Smith, jum-., &c. 



Our second Field Meeting was arranged for the 21st of June, at Pontj^pool, and a 

 strong company of members were attracted to the scene of our operations. With 

 accessions made during the day, our list amounted to 29 members and 14 visitors, 43 in all. 

 Again the weather was unpropitious ; escaping any heavy downpour, wc suffered from 

 occasional drizzling showers, and the striking features of the interesting valley, through 

 which the Avon runs its turbulent course on its descent to the Usk, were sadly 

 obscured. It had occurred to me that the choice of Pontypool for a Field Meeting gave 

 an excellent opportunity for exhibiting to our Herefordshire friends the mineral features 

 of a coal and iron field, and, at the same time, the machinery and processes employed in 

 the manufacture of that most useful of metals for which is celebrated a vast tract of 

 country, otherwise comparatively barren and unproductive, which extends from the edge 

 •f the Monmouthshire coal basin to the shores of Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire. 



