0oll}0p£ Jiatoalists' JFklft Club. 



The first Meeting this year took place on Tuesday, April 17th, in the Woolhope 

 Club Room. The following members attended :— The President (Rev. William 

 Elliot), Vice-Presidents (Mr. F. Bainbridge and Mr. Geo. H. Piper, F.G.S.,) 

 Sir Herbert Croft, Revs. W. Bowell, F. T. Havergal, W. H Lambert, H. B. D. 

 Marshall, P. H. S. Strong, M. G. Watkins, and H. T. Williamson ; Drs. T. A. 

 Chapman and J. B. Fitzsimons ; Messrs. T. Cam, J. Carless, R. Clarke, James 

 Davies, G. Davies, J. Dockuig, A. Purchas, O. Shellard, with Mr. James B. Pilley, 

 Assistant Secretary, and Mr. H. C. Moore, Honorary Secretary. The financial 

 statement was read, and the bill for the publication of the Volume of the 

 Transactions of 1881—1882 was directed to be paid. Copies of the volume were 

 issued to members present at the meeting. The following books, pamphlets, &c., 

 have been presented either as gifts or by interchange with other societies : — " A 

 Clinometer," received from the widow of the late Rev. William S. Symonds, 

 F.G.S., &c., who died September loth, 1887, with the following memorandum 

 made by him on January 26th, 1887 : " I wish the Clinometer which belonged to 

 Sir Charles Lyell, which he carried for years, and which was presented to mo 

 on his death, to be placed in the Museum of the Woolhope Club at Hereford " ; 

 " Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire," presented by Mrs. Bull ; " La Flore dea 

 Vosges Champignons "—par le docteur Antoine Mougeot ; "Index Seminum in 

 hortis Muscei Parisiensis anno 1887 collectorum." Pamphlets from Dr. H. B. 

 Geinits!, of Dresden, as follows :—" Ueber Palmacites" Reiche Gain. "Die 

 Meteoriten des Koniglichen Mineralogischen Museums in Dresden." " Zur Dyas 

 in Hessen." " A preliminary inquiry into the genesis of the Crystalline Schists of 

 the Malvern Hills," by Charles Callaway, D. Sc, F.G.S. "On a second 

 Precambrian group in the Malvern Hills," by Charles Callaway, D. So., F.G.S. 

 Bristol Naturalists' Society, Vol. v., Part 2, 1886, 1887. Flora of Cardiff. 

 Cardiff Naturalists' Society ; various numbers, making up some of the deficiencies 

 in our library to Vol. xix.. Part 1, 1887. Cotte-swold Naturalists' Field Club; 

 proceedings of 1885, 1886, and of 1886 to 1887. Essex Naturalist; monthly 

 numbers, commencing January, 1887. Geologists' Association, proceedings of ; 

 Vol. ix.. No. 8, for November, 1886 ; Vol. x.. No. 1, for February, 1887; Vol. x., 

 No. 2, for May, 1887; Vol. x., No. 3, for August, 1887. Hampshire Field Club, 

 proceedings of ; No. 1, 1887. Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archeeologists' Field 

 Club, proceedings of ; 1886. 



The dates and places fixed for the Field Meetings for the year were as 

 follows : — 



