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tjresent year : — "Friday, May 15, Church Stretton ; Friday, June 19th, Bnilth ; 

 I'riday, July 17, the Ladies' Day at Doward's Cave ; Tuesday, August l<th, 

 Lydney. The usual Fungus Foray to take place on Thursday, September 

 24th. 



Rev. R. H. Cobbold, Rector of Ross ; Mr. Theo?. Lane, Hereford : and 

 Mr. Edward Cambridge Phillips, Solicitor, Brecon, were elected annual 

 members, and several other gentlemen were proposed for election at the next 

 meeting. 



Evan Pateshall, Esq., M.P., was unable at the last moment to atteri'l, 

 owing to indisposition. 



A paper was read by Mr. Rankin on " British Rodents." 



Proposed by the PRESinBNT, seconded by Mr. OA'Nr, and carried, " That 

 the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Rankin for his paper, and that it 

 be ]>rinted in the transactions of the club." 



The dinner was served at four o'clock, when the High Sheriff (Lieut. - 

 Colonel Symonds) and Mr. Reginald Symonds joined the company. 



After dinner the President proposed the health of the Queen, and this 

 toast having been received with the wonted loyalty of Woolhopians, proceeded 

 to deliver his retiring address, which occupied some forty minutes. 



At the conclusion of the address Mr. Flavell EoMOND-i rose to corrobo- 

 rate that portion of it which, apropos of Wapley, Croft Ambrey, and the 

 Herefordshire and Radnorshire Camps, declined to see in any of them the 

 requirements of Tacitus's account of the last battle of Caractacus. Mr. 

 Edmunds pointed out that the Breidden HiU, near the Severn in Montgomery- 

 shire, was the only hUl hitherto named which fulfilled the conditions of the 

 annalist's description. 



The High Sheriff then proposed the health of the President, with a 

 vote of thanks to him for his retiring address, and congratulated the club on 

 the fact that a retiring address did not in this case imply retirement, the 

 President having been re-elected. He expressed his willingness to serve on a 

 pomological sub-committee to facilitate the interchange of grafts and scions 

 of choice apples and pears between members of the club ; and adverting to 

 the third meeting of the coming year, which had been fixed for the Doward 

 Caves on the 17th of July, suggested that the archaeologists of the club should 

 turn aside on that occasion to inspect the old Herefordshire manor-house at 

 GOlow, and also a camp on his (Colonel Symonds's) property, which he would 

 be happy to show them. 



Dr. Bull, in seconding the vote of thanks to the President, took 

 occasion to refer to a botanical paper on the flora of the district about Moor 

 Court, written by his eldest son, Mr. James Henry Davies, as an able and 

 interesting i^aper, and congratulated the President on his son's having 

 obtained the distinction of a first-class in Natural Science Honours at Oxford 

 at the final examination last term. He trusted that at many future field 

 meetings the club would have Mr. J. H. Davies among them. Dr. Bull 



