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bnrne, a vice-president of the society, seconded the vote of thanks, which was 

 carried by acclamation ; and Mr. Symonds, in his acknowledgements, con- 

 gratulated the Woolhopians upon their rank and prowess among " field clubs," 

 suggested the individual devotion of the members to the examination of the 

 geology, botany, and archaeology of their several localities, and strongly urged 

 the great importance, when the " locus in quo " of a museum was provided at 

 Hereford, of making it the repertory and the sanctuary of the typical fossils of 

 the district embraced by the club. After a little lingering upon a vantage- 

 groimd, new to many of the members present, the club parted with Mr. 

 Symonds, and descended the hiU through clayey lanes, and characteristic 

 orchards, until it reached a way-side " public " yclept the " Farmer's Boy," 

 where vehicles were presently at hand to convey the members to Ross. This 

 transit was so speedily effected, in spite of the rain which had come down with 

 a will, after May Hill was left behind, that time sufficed for a ^^sit to the 

 chm-ch of Ross before dinner. Its fine spire and monuments, and other 

 characteristic features were examined, and dreams and speculations were rife 

 as to its future restoration. 



Dinner was served at four o'clock to about 20 Woolhopians, the Rev. H. 

 T. HiU, of Felton, joining the party, though he had been unable to imder- 

 take the excursion. After the dinner, which reflected credit on " mine host " 

 of the " Royal," the business of the club was transacted. The following gentle- 

 men proposed for membership at the Wapley meeting, were duly elected : 

 — Mr. G. V. Banks, Birch House, Ross ; Mr. Martin, architect, Hereford ; 

 Mr. Richard Done, Pont Faen, Hay. 



A discussion arose and interrogatories were put to the President, in 

 reference to the publication of the transactions for the year 1872, as well as 

 the re-publication in a more solid fashion of those for the year 1871. 



Mr. Davies explained that at the annual meeting in January an Editorial 

 Committee had been appointed, on which Mr. Rankin, Sir George Comewall, 

 the Rev. S. Clark, the Rev. C. J. Robinson, with himself, had consented to 

 act, but that such committee dated only from the time of their appointment, 

 and, as far as he knew its mind, was loth to charge itself with retrospective 

 duties, considering that it was safer financially and editorially to start fair 

 with the transactions of the year 1873. 



It was then represented that unless something were determined with 

 reference to the Transactions of 1872, valuable papers, such as that of Mr. 

 Johnson, at the Malvern Meeting, that of Mr. Lees, and that of Mr. Adams, 

 on the Pontypool Coal Field, as weU as Mr. Isbell's Metereological Tables for 

 the year, would be allowed to remain unpublished, to the great loss of members 

 interested. 



Eventually it was proposed by Mr. Heeefoec, seconded by Colonel 

 Symonds, " That Mr. Fowler should be requested to audit the Accounts of the 

 Club, and that, if the Funds allowed it, an endeavour should be made to 

 arrange for the publication, in a single volume, of the Transactions and Papers 

 of the years 1871 and 1872." 



