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he himself £5; Rev. C. H. Bulmer, £5; and Mr. Rankin, £5; Rev. James 
Davies, Moor Court, £5; George H. Piper, Esq., Ledbury, £5; and the Rev. 
William Jones Thomas, Llan Thomas, £5 for the year 1877. Of course if the 
guarantors were called upon in any single year there would soon be an end of the 
publication. 
Mr. J. G. Morris said that he should not have ventured to move the first 
resolution (as read by Dr. Bull)) had it not been that the Club had kindly placed 
him in the president’s chair for the ensuing year; and as the resolution would 
doubtless receive prominent attention during his year of office, he had less hesita- 
tion in proposing it than he should otherwise have had. Some few years ago the 
Bishop of Manchester when addressing a public meeting in the Shirehall, rather 
startled some of his hearers by saying that Herefordshire was peculiarly different 
from other counties in England, in having many harvests; and he made out that 
in Herefordshire there were no less than seven harvests. They began with wool, 
and continued with bark, hay, corn, hops, potatoes, and last—the one most special 
to the county—the vintage harvest—that was as muchas tosay, the apple and pear 
crops. The soil and climate of the county were adapted to the growth of the 
apple. No doubt a feeling of that sort prompted the late Mr. Knight to commence 
his ‘“‘ Pomona,” and it had been pretty nearly decided to-day to have a pomological 
department established under the auspices of that Club. He had very little doubt 
as to the success of the publication, which would enhance the study of pomology ; 
and anybody who wished to obtain knowledge of the growth of apples and pears 
in the county should have a book of the kind suggested to refer to (hear, hear). 
If any persons prepared sucha work, who were better able to set about it than the 
Natural History Club resident on the spot? (hear, hear). He had great pleasure 
in proposing that a pomological department be formed in connection with the 
club (hear, hear). 
Mr. Rankin seconded the proposition, and suggested that a small handbook 
of the pomology of the county should be published simultaneously with the more 
expensive work, so as to bring the study of the subject within the reach of all 
classes, 
Dr. Bull said that the suggestion was a very practical one, but he thought, 
in the present state of knowledge on the subject, it could hardly be expected that 
they should issue a small handbook simultaneously with the more expensive work 
until they had gained sufficient information to compile one. That would be a 
work of some four or five years at least. 
The proposition was carried unanimously. 
On the motion of Dr. Bull, seconded by the Rev. J. Davies, the following 
gentlemen were appointed the general committee, viz., the President of the Wool- 
hope Club, chairman; Sir Henry Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., Mr. W. H. 
Apperley (Withington), Dr. Bull, Rev. C. H. Bulmer, Mr. H. C. Beddoe (Here- 
ford), Mr. John Bosley (Lyde), Mr. Thomas Cam, Dr. Chapman (Burghill), Mr. 
Joseph Carless, jun., Mr. John Cranston (Kings Acre), Dr. M‘Cullough, Rev. 
James Davies (Moor Court), Mr. J. T. Owen Fowler, Mr, Hall (Garford), Mr. F. 
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