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DeUvered to the Members of the Woolhoi-b NATtnui-iSTs' Fikb Cttm. 

 at their Annual Meeting, held in Hereford, 24th January, 1854, by tho 

 Bfiv. Thos. T, Lewis, A.M. President. 



Gentlemen, 



On quitting the office of President of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club, to which your kindness elected mo last 

 year, it devolves upon me, in conformity with your rules, to submit 

 to you a brief sketch of the year's proceedings. 



'On entering this task the thoughts of all present will be at 

 once directed to the painful events by which a wise Providence 

 within a few months deprived us of the society of two of our most 

 active and valuable members,— the one regarded by us as the 

 founder of our little club, and ihe other as a very distinguished 

 member of it,— under circumstances awfully sudden, and too dis- 

 tressing and well known to you for me to dwell upon. Suffice it 

 to say, that we are daily and hourly sensible of the loss we have 

 sustained in their removal, but console ourselves in the retrospect, 

 that they were not more respected by all who had the pleasure of 

 the-.r acquaintance and friendship, than distinguished for their 

 abilities and intellectual attainments, their high moral integrity, 

 and the zeal with which they devoted themselves to the promotion 

 of science, and its application to the improvement of the condition 

 of their fellow-creatures. Such ornaments of society ought not to 

 pass away from this transitory scene as mere ordinary mortals. 

 Among the friends of Mr. Scobie a desire was at once expressed to 



