Wioolhope Raturalisty Hield Club. 
MEEDING AW SUALT HE; 
Fripay, JUNE 197, 1874. 
The Second Field Meeting for the season of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field 
Club was held at Builth on Friday, when there were present : — Rev. 
James Davies, President; Mr. Timothy Curley and Mr. J. Griffith Morris, 
members of the Central Committee ; Rev. W. S. Symonds, Pendock Rectory ; 
Mr. Flavell Edmunds, and Rev. W. Elliott, Cardington Vicarage, Secretary to 
the Caradoc Field Club, Honorary Members; Dr. Bnll, Rev. T. M. Beayan, 
Mr. J. T. Owen Fowler, Mr. Joseph Greaves, Mr. Edward Howorth Greenly, 
Rey. J. Grasett, Rev. A. G. Jones, Rev. William Jones Thomas, Rev. J. H. 
Jukes, Rev. H. Cooper Key, Mr. Theophilus Lane, Mr. James W. Lloyd, Rev. 
H. B. D. Marshall, Mr. H. C. Moore, Mr. J. E. Norris, Mr. Evan Owen, 
Mr. T. Clifton Paris, Rev. H. W. Phillott, Mr, Alfred J. Purchas, Rev. Stephen 
Thackwell, Rev. H. W. Tweed, Rev. R. H. Williams, Mr. Arthur Thompson, 
Treasurer and Assistant {Secretary. Visitors: Miss Browne, Miss M. Browne, 
Dr. Chase, Mr. H. Mier, Mr. Phillott, Lieutenant J. F. Symonds, Mr. R. 
Symonds, Rev. James Robertson (Llowes), Mr. E. D. Thomas (Wellfield, Hay), 
Mr. B. Whitefoord, Mr. David Grithths. 
At this Meeting Mr. John Percy Severn, Penybont Hall, Radnorshire, 
was elected an Annual Member of the Club. 
The sky was covered with a gray haze when the Members assembled at the 
Barton Station, Hereford, and throughout the day the lofty hills were but dimly 
perceptible ; but the atmosphere was clear in the valley, and about mid-day the 
sun shone out with great intensity, making the shelter of the woods around 
Llanelwedd House, through which the route lay, exceedingly grateful. The 
beautiful scenery of the Upper Wye Valley never showed to greater advantage. 
The picturesque reaches of the Wye with their setting of luxuriant foliage, green 
meadows, and corn fields, formed a succession of rapidly changing lakes as seen 
from the moving train, while the lofty hills of the Hatterill and the Radnorshire 
Beacon “stood dressed in the living green” of the young bracken, which faded off 
into the cold gray of the sward and the dark brown masses of rock, which here 
and there came to the surface. The view of the pretty gorge of the Bachowy 
