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April 15th, 1880. 



TTf HE annual meeting of the Naturalists' Field Club was held on Thursday, 

 *' I '* April 15th, in the Club-room, at the Free Library. Amongst the mem- 

 bers present were — Mr. A. Armitage (President), Mr. J. H. Knight 

 (President-elect), Mr. G. H. Piper (President of the Malvern Field Club), Mr. 

 Edwin Lees (Vice-President of the same Club), Dr. BuU, Dr. Chapman, Dr. 

 McCuUough, Mr. J. G. Morris, Mr. W. A. Swinburne, Rev. James Davies, Rev. 

 W. Bowell, Rev. C. H. Bulmer, Rev. G. H. Clay, Mr. Joseph Carless, Mr. T. 

 Ourley, Rev. W. C. Fowie, Rev. H. T. Hill, Rev. W. A. Horton, Dr. H. James, 

 Rev. A. Ley, Rev. H. T. Mogridge, Mr. H. C. Moore, Mr. O. Shellard, Mr. 

 Theo. Lane (Secretary). 



The financial statement of the Club, and that also of the Herefordshire 

 Pom.ona, were presented and read. The meteorological tables, with the rainfall 

 and register of flood water on the Wye for the year 1879, were laid on the table. 



The volume of Transactions for 1874-75-7C were distributed to the members 

 present, and the ten plates containing drawings of forty varieties of fruit, which 

 have been prepared for Part III. of the Hercfm'dshire Pomona were exhibited to 

 the members. 



A paper on "The Herefordshire Mosses," by the Rev. Augustin Ley, was 

 ordered to be printed forthwith, and several matters of ordinary business trans- 

 acted. The Secretary was desired to acknowledge the receipt of the 11th volume 

 of the American Geological Report, published by the Smithsonian Institution. 



The field meetings for the present year were then fixed as follows :— 



Tuesday, May 20th — Herefordshire Beacon. 



Tuesday, June 22nd — Buildwas for Benthall Edge. 



Tuesday, July 27th (ladies' day) — Chepstow. 



Thursday, August 26th — Church Stretton. 



Thursday, October 7th — Fungus Foray. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Club — Colonel Clive, 

 Colonel Peyton, Mr. W. J. Humfrys, Mr. F. R. Wegg-Prosser, and the Rev. W. 

 L. W. Eyre. Other gentlemen were then proposed. 



The members then adjourned to dinner, and afterwards the President (Mr. 

 Arthur Armitage) read his retiring address, which was followed by an elaborate 

 paper on "The Crab Apple — its Characteristics and Associations," read by Mr. 

 Edwin Lees, F.L.S., &c., Vice-President of the Malvern and Worcestershire 

 Field Clubs. 



