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Mr. Moore's prosecution of this work are worthy of our warmest praise. Still 

 further to enhance the value of what is admittedly a most valuable treasury of 

 local history, arohBeology, and science, the Rev. Pjeb. Havergal lias added a 

 classified index of the whole of the Transactions of the Club from the year of its 

 formation. The great importance of this does not need any pointing out ; and 

 the thanks of his fellow members are most deservedly due to Mr. Havergal for the 

 suggestion of the idea and the no slight labour involved in its realisation. Here 

 I would draw your attention to the )jroposal which has been laid before you to 

 republish the earlier Transactions, few original copies of which are at the present 

 moment remaining, and are almost impossible of acquisition by the general 

 purchaser. I should hope that the obvious desirability of having a work of so 

 much importance, and one which will increase yearly in value, in a complete form, 

 will very soon enable the Editorial Committee to proceed with the republication 

 in question. 



Beyond putting on record the fact that we were on each occasion 

 of our Field Meetings in 1887 favoured with fine weather, I shall not 

 enter into details of what took place at them The Thornbury day enabled 

 the Club to extend its already wide acquaintance with those camps of 

 British or Roman occupation of which Herefordshire has so many. An 

 instructive work on these fortified places might be extracted from the pages 

 of the Woolhope Transactions. The three other days of meeting permitted 

 us to pass in hasty review the whole history of the Old Red Sandstone formation, 

 from its appearance, overlying the upper rocks of the Silurian system, near 

 Craven Arms, to its passage under the Carboniferous near Mitcheldean. At the 

 former place we had the advantage of the guidance of the Rev. J. D. La Touche, 

 the President of the Caradoc Field Club, and the fine exposures of Carboniferous 

 strata near Mitcheldean were pointed out and explained to us by Mr. Wethered, 

 Secretary of the Cotteswold. Each gentleman, from his intimate acquaintance 

 with the locality in which he spoke, was an invaluable interpreter of the story of 

 the rocks contained in them. Nor should I omit to record pajiers of much 

 interest kindly read, one by Sir Herbert Croft, on our visit to Stokesay Castle, on 

 the battle of Stokesay ; another by Mr. Hutchinson as an appendix to a descriptive 

 catalogue of Herefordshire Lepidoptera pre\iously communicated by members of his 

 family, and a third by Mr. Fowler, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, on the family 

 of Motacillfe, or Wagtails. I was unable, in consequence of an engagement of 

 some standing, to do more than welcome at the annual dinner the distinguished 

 mycologists who, as so often on former occasions, honoured us with their presence 

 at the Fungus Foray of tlie year. I was most glad, however, to learn that the 

 locality chosen, that of the Forest of Dean, had proved so favourable a one for 

 the purposes of their quest as to induce them to express a hope that it might be 

 selected for the Foray of the present season. Upon the whole, it is pleasant to 

 believe that our excursions of the year now ended were found to be by those who 

 shared them both enjoyable and useful, and that so far one great object of a 

 Field Club's existence was attained. Important, however, as one holds it, that 

 we should be successful from this point of view in organizing mectinys at which 



