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Plootoye Eeturalists’ Stil? Club. 
The general annual meeting of the members of the Woolhope Naturalists’ 
Field Club was held in the club room at the Free Library, Hereford, on Tuesday, 
February 13th, Present—Dr. Chapman, President (in the chair), J. Griffiths 
Morris, Esq., the President elect; the Rev. William Jones Thomas, James 
Rankin, Esq., and W. A. Swinburne, Esq., Vice-Presidents ; the Rev. James 
Davies, Vice-President elect ; F. Bodenham, Esq., Dr. Bull, Rev. J. F. Crouch, 
T. Curley, Esq., James Davies, Esq., Theos. Lane, Esq., Rev. F. T. Havergal, 
John Lloyd, Esq., Rev. H. Cooper Key, Joseph Greaves, Esq., Rev. F. Mere- 
wether, Rev. G. M. Metcalfe, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, secretary. 
The Treasurer presented a statement of his accounts for the year 1876, duly 
audited. 
Dr. Chapman presented the meteorological report for 1876; and Messrs. 
Stephens and Thompson presented the register of the flocd waters on the Wye for 
1876. ; 
The following times and places were fixed for the field meetings for 1877 :— 
1. On Thursday, May 17th, Mordiford. 
2. On Tuesday, June 19th, Midsummer Hill, Eastnor. 
3. On Thursday, July 19th, Presteigne (Ladies’ day). 
4. On Tuesday, August 21st, Trelleck, near Monmouth. 
5. On Tuesday, October 4th, Fungus Foray. 
Rev. C. H. Bulmer, Credenhill, was re-elected a member; Rev. Wm. 
Bowell, Chandus House, Hereford, was elected a member. 
On the completion of the above business the members adjourned to the 
Green Dragon Hotel to dinner, when the following additional members joined 
them :—Thomas Blashill, Esq. (London), Rev. C. H. Bulmer (Credenhill), E. 
Colt Williams, Esq. (Hereford). 
After dinner, Dr. Bull reported how they were getting on with the Here- 
fordshire Pomona. 
Dr. Chapman read his retiring address as President. “A vote of thanks was 
unanimously carried to the retiring President for the way in which he had fulfilled 
the office during the last year, and for his admirable address. 
The Rev. C. H. Balmer read a paper on ‘‘ Pomology Historically Con- 
sidered.” 
James Davies, Esq., read a paper on “ Shrove-Tuesday and its customs.” 
E. Colt Wiiliams, Esq., alluded to the annual custom at Westminster 
School on Pancake day. 
