AN ADDRESS 



Delivered to tlie Members of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 

 at their Annual Meetittg, held in Hereford, 23rd January, 1855, by the 

 Kev. W. S. Stmosds, F. G. S., President. 



GENTLE5IEN, 



Three summers have passed away since the naturalists 

 of the Woolhope Club met for the first time, on a May morning, at 

 Tarrington, to explore that Silurian valley of elevation from whence 

 the Club takes its title. Since that period, we have experienced 

 the storm as well as the sunshine, and our little Society has not 

 been exempt from the vicissitudes which it is the lot of man while 

 here below to meet with. The bust of our departed friend (tlie late 

 ]Mackay Scobie, Esq., formerly Hon. Sec. to the Society), presented, 

 by those who knew his worth, as a token of regard to his widow, 

 (and which even at this moment seems to watch over our proceedings), 

 must ever remind this Society, when assembled in this room, of 

 many pure and happy hours spent together in the investigation of 



God's Works ! 



We are now assembled together for the third time for our winter 

 meeting, and to elect a new President; allow me, then, without 

 affectation or reserve, to thank you all cordially for the houour you 

 have done me in calling me to the chair during the past year, as 

 well as for the courtesy and kindness with which my humble efforts 

 have been received. 



It has been the custom that the President should each year address 

 to the meeting a short recapitulation of the proceedings of the Clubj 

 but as, at both our Leominster and Monmouth Cap meetings, I 



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