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GHoolhope Aaturalisty Sield GClud. 
First MEETING, STOKE EpiTH, May 23RD, 1876. 
This Meeting was held jointly with the Dudley and Midland Geological 
and Scientific Society and Field Club. Present:—T. A. Chapman, M.D., 
President; Revs. J. Davis, R. H. Cobbold, H. B. D. Marshall, E. J. Owen, R. 
H, Williams, H. W. Tweed and Friend, R. Rees, Esq., Stephen Perrin, Esq., 
E, Davies, Esq., Mr. A. Thompson, Secretary. 
The retiring Treasurer produced the statement of the accounts for 1875 
duly audited, shewing a balance of £133 6s. 7d. in favour of the Club on December 
31, 1875, and £13 of arrears paid up till March 13, 1876, the date of audit, which 
sums were handed over to the new Treasurer, leaving £34 1s. 6d. of arrears still 
due to the Club. 
A letter from the Committee of the Hereford Free Library being read, it 
was preposed by the Rev. James Davies, and seconded by the Rev. R. H. 
Williams, that a sum of not less than £50 be given to the Museum Fund of the 
Hereford Free Library, subject to approval by the next meeting on June 27th. 
Captain Doughty, Hampton Park, and Rev. John Goss, College, Hereford, 
proposed at Annual Meeting, were duly elected Members of the Club. 
Captain Mayne Reid, Chasewood Lodge, Ross, was proposed and seconded 
for election at the next Meeting as an Annual Member. 
They were afterwards joined by the following Members, &c., of the Club— 
Rey. R. P. Hill, Vice-President of the Malvern Club, and Honorary Member 
and Friend, Dr. Grindrod, Member of the Malvern Club, Rev. W. S. Stooke- 
Vaughan, and Dr. J. H. Wood, together with the following Members of the 
Dudley Club—C. Cochrane, Esq., President ; Messrs. C. de Lessert, A. Freen, 
Fisher, A. Wyley, Bland, Dixon, Evers, Hartborne, Houghton, E. B. Marten 
(Honorary Secretary), Mathews, Pearce, Perry, Pugh, Rabone, Richards, 
Sheppard, Thwisfield, J. Underhill, H. Underhill, F, Underhill, and several 
ladies. 
After visiting the gardens and house at Stoke Edith Park, by the kind 
permission of Lady Emily Foley, and inspecting the painted hall and some of the 
tapestries in the upper rooms, the party assembled on Seager Hill, when the 
general conformation of the Woolhope Valley was fully seen with central dome 
of May Hill sandstone and the double hills round, caused by the outcrop of the 
Woolhope and Aymestry limestones. 
