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As a rider to this proposition, Mr. Swinburne, Vice-President, suggested 

 and proposed "That the Editorial Committee be requested to provide fur and 

 undertake the publication of the Transactions of 1871 and 1872, it being under- 

 stood that the members would cheerfully supplement their annual subscription 

 by a head tax to meet the temporary need, if it were found to exist." 



The President undertook to communicate the views of the Club to the 

 other members of the Editorial Committee, and hoped that they would be able 

 to report upon the subject at the meeting on the 11th of July. 



The photograph of the elm tree at Homme End, presented to the Club by 

 the Rev. WiUiam Poole, and taken by Messrs. Ladmore was handed round, 

 and it was announced that it would be ready for the new volume as soon as 

 the mounts were printed. 



Mr. Hereford kindly volimteered to present the Club with a photograph 

 of one of his fine trees, as a contribution to the record of the Representative 

 Trees of Herefordshire, and his offer was accepted with enthusiasm. 



The Rev. T. T. Smith then exhibited a flint implement of the neo-lithic 

 period, recently sent to him from the mountains of Carnarvonshire. He 

 .i,'lanced at its beautiful adaptation to the hand that would have had to ply it, 

 drew attention to the peculiar rounding off of the nearer edge, and suggested, 

 -from experience of the habits of the North American Indians, that its use and 

 purpose was for skinning anunals. 



The Rev. H. Cooper Key believed that the implement exhiliited vvas of 

 horn-stone, and not basalt. 



Mr. Smith promised, at a later period, to communicate a more detailed 

 account of this implement for publication in the transactions. 



The President announced that a block of the plan of Wapley Camp, 

 exhibited at the Wapley meeting, was being made by Mr. Dallas, of 234, 

 Oray's-inn-road, London ; so that engravings of it would be forthcoming at 

 the proper time. 



The Club then left the hotel for the Ross station, and t iok the 7 o'clock 

 train for Hereford, thence dispei-sing to their different destinations, agreeably 

 .~uri>rised at the falsification — in the main — of the weather's morning 

 " unpromise," and highly satisfied with their achieved excursion to May Hill. 



The following members and visitors were present :— Rev. James Davies, 

 President ; Rev. H. W. PhlUott and Mr. W. A. Swinburne, Vice-Presidents ; 

 Mr. Curley, Mr. C. G. Martin, and Mr. J. G. Morris, central committee ; Rev. 

 W. S. SymoncLs, Mr. H. G. Apperley, Mr. H. G. Davies, Mr. J. B. 

 Downing, Mr. J. T. Owen Fowler, Mr. Richard Hereford, Rev. H. T. 

 Hill, Rev. H. Cooper Key, Rev. E. Palin, Mr. T. Clifton Paris, Mr. Alfred 

 Purchas, Rev. T. T. Smith, Lieut. -Colonel Symonds, Mr. Arthur Thompson, 

 treasiirer and assistant-secretary. Visitors : Rev. R. H. Cobbold, Ross ; 

 Rev. C. J. Jones, Westbury-on-Severn ; Mr. J. E. Norris, Hephill ; Rev. A. 

 H. Price, Lugwardine ; Mr. F. Symonds, Pendock ; Rev. T. R. White, Little 

 Dewchurch. 



