M0olb0]p0 JJattrraltsts' fidh Club. 



1887. 



The Annual Meeting of this Club for the year 1887 was held in the Woolhope 

 Club-room, Free Library, Hereford, on Monday, April 25th. The following 

 were present : — Mr. G. H. Piper, F.G.S., President ; Rev. Wm. Elliot, President- 

 elect ; Vice-President, Mr. H. Southall ; Mr. H. Wilson, President of the 

 Malvern Naturalists' Field Club ; and the following members — Revs. Wm. 

 Bowell, E. J. Holloway, A. W. Horton, Augustin Ley, H. B. D. Marshall, and 

 P. Strong; Dr. T. A. Chapman, and Messrs. Ballard, Cam, J. Carless, jun., 

 Clarke, Gilbert Da vies. Docking, Martin, Moore, Rootes, and Shellard. — The 

 vacancy caused by the resignation on account of ill-health, of the office of Secretary 

 by Mr. Theo. Lane, was filled up by reverting to the former constitution of the 

 Club according to Rules 2 and 3 — viz., by electing an Honorary Secretary and an 

 Assistant Secretary. Accordingly, after expressing their recognition of the 

 services of Mr. Theo. Lane, their thanks for his labour and devotion to their 

 interests for the last ten years, the meeting elected Mr. H. C. Moore, Honorary 

 Secretary, and Mr. James B. Pilley, Assistant Secretary. — The financial state- 

 ment was read and approved. Various estimates, and especially such as were 

 connected with diagrams to illustrate the "Transactions of the Club" since the 

 year 1877 inclusive, were sanctioned. — It was announced that a volume would be 

 shortly issued comprising the transactions during the years 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 

 which would be the property of every member who had paid up all arrears, as 

 well as his subscription for the current year 1887. — It was resolved that a vote of 

 thanks be accorded, and entered on the minutes, to Mr. H. C. Moore for his 

 editorial services, in the compilation of tliis the first volume of the ten yeara of 

 arrears of " Transactions of the Woolhope Club." — The Rev. A. Ley gave a very 

 satisfactory report of the progress of " The Herefordshire Flora." — The following 

 works, presented to the Club, were laid upon the table for inspection : — 

 Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club for 1885-188(5 ; Transac- 

 tions of the Esse.K Field Club, Vol. IV., Part 2, for December, 188G ; the Essex 

 Naturalist, Nos. 1 and 2, for January and February, 1887 ; Annual Report of 

 Smithsonian Institution (Washington), for 1884, Vol. II; "Etudes sur le 

 Phyllo.\era Vastatrix," by Mons. J. Maxime Cornu, being memoirs presented 

 to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France. — The dates and places of 

 meeting for the current year were arranged as follows : —Friday, May 27th, 

 Mitcheldean ; Monday, June 27th, Thorubury Camp ; Thursday, July 28th, 

 Ladies' Day, Grosmont and Skenfrith ; Thursday, August 25th, Craven Arms ; 

 Fungus foray, the week commencing Monday, October 3rd. — The reading of the 

 retiring President's address on "Searches for coal in Herefordshire" was deferred, 

 only to be reserved, we hope, for publication hereafter in " The Transactions." In 

 the present day any geologist knows that a search for coal under the Old Red 

 Sandstone of Herefordshire must assuredly result in failure. 



