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Among those present were the following :—Rev. Charles J. Robinson (Presi- 
dent), Rev. James Davies, James Rankin, Esq., Rev. H. C. Key, Rev. H. W. 
Phillott, Colonel Byrde, Rev. C. J. Westropp, Rev. T. E. Grasett, J. T. Owen 
Fowler, Esq., Rev. J. Crouch, Dr. Taylor, Rev. T. T. Smith, Dr. Chapman, J. 
Griffith Morris, Esq., J. Greaves, Esq., Theo. Lane, Esq., Mr. James W. Lloyd, 
George H. Piper, Esq., Stephen Vernon, Esq. (Newport), J. W. Lukis, Esq. 
(President of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society), Rev. F. C. ‘Stebbing, Mr. Hamil- 
ton, J. M. Tilewellin, Esq., Miss Lee, Mrs, Moggridge, Miss Llewellin, Miss 
Edwards, the Mayor of Hereford, W. Adams, Esq., F.G.8., Rev. J. H. Jukes, 
Mr. A. Thompson, and Rey. J. E. Machen Jones, to whom, as well as to J. H. 
Lee, Esq., F.G.S., F. Moggridge, Esq., and Dr. Woollett, the thanks of the Club 
are largely due. 
The Assistant Secretary announced that since the annual meeting he had 
received a small parcel of pamphlets from the University of Christiana, per Mr. 
Thomas Butler, Assistant Secretary to the British Museum; and the Assistant 
Secretary was authorised to convey the thanks of the Club to Mr. Butler. 
The following gentlemen were unanimously elected annual members of the 
Club :—The Rev. William Wyatt, Hope-under-Dinmore, Leominster ; John Riley, 
Esq., Putley Court, Ledbury; the Rev. Arthur Young, Pembridge, Hereford- 
shire; Charles Anthony, Jun., Esq., The Elms, Hereford; Lewis Sargeant, 
Esq., Hereford ; the Rev. G. M. Metcalfe, Pipe and Lyde, Hereford; Richard 
Thomason, Esq., Drybridge House, Hereford. 
ADDRESS ON THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CAERLEON, 
BY J. E. LEE, Ese, OF TORQUAY. 
Tt is somewhat singular that though there can be no reasonable doubt as to 
this place having been for centuries a very important station both in and before the 
Roman times, yet very little is known of it from actual history. And yet it was 
the capital of the Silures, the tribe of ancient British inhabitants which was the 
very last to yield to the Roman power, and besides this it acquired its medizval or 
rather post-Roman name from having been the almost permanent quarters of the 
Second Augustan Legion—one of the best known in the Roman army; the name 
of Caer-leon being evidently a corruption of Castrum legionis. How then are we 
to explain the fact of so little being actually recorded as to Isca Silurum, the name 
by which it is known in Roman times? Possibly from the fact of the place being 
so much on the borders of civilisation, that no one of aliterary turn liked to spend 
his leisure time here and record the doings of the so-called barbarians. I know 
that this will be called a very doubtful explanation, but I can think of no better, 
and the difficulty is now mentioned as an apology for what I mean to do during 
the few minutes which are at my disposal, viz., instead of giving you history, 
which is only ideal or tradition resting on no certain ground, I will simply describe 
the place as it is believed to have existed in Roman times, and then mention a few 
of the more interesting antiquities, 
