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which perhaps only one or two complete copies are now in existence, that the 

 names of eighteen more subscribers were required to reach the total of one 

 hundred, before the work could be commenced, the cost of republication, as 

 previously and frequently notified, being at 8s. 6d. per volume if only one 

 hundred copies were subscribed for ; 6s. if two hundred copies, and 5s. if two 

 hundred and fifty copies were subscribed for. Thirdly, that he had represented 

 to Major the Hon. Geoffrey Hill, as requested at the last field meeting of this 

 Club at Kington, the threatened extermination of "The Flowering Fern " from 

 the locality of Rhosgoch ; and he had now the pleasure of informing the members 

 that steps had been promised to be taken in order to prevent its wholesale 

 extermination. 



Papers were read, one by Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, on "The capture and 

 preservation of Lepidoptera," followed by another by Mr. E. W. Colt Williams, 

 who described the beauties of the chalice at Bacton. 



So soon as the papers were finished, the train was due for returning to 

 Hereford, scarcely giving time for the President to request the Rev. Thomas P. 

 Powell to convey to Mrs. Powell and her family, on behalf of the Club, their 

 thanks for the hospitality accorded in the earlier part of the day, and to express 

 to the reverend gentleman himself a sense of their gratitude for the light thrown 

 upon the Arcliseological history of the locality by the contribution to the 

 Transactions of the Club of his paper on " Snodhill Castle." 



A very interesting collection of specimens of Roman pottery, discovered in 

 the neighbourhood of Vowchurch, collected by the late Mr. H. Jenkins, a surgeon, 

 formerly resident in this neighbourhood, was exhibited by Mr. Walter Pilley, 

 of Hereford. The hand lamps and hanging lamp were in a very good state of 

 preservation. The collection included objects of domestic use in metal, such as 

 rings, scissors, the well-known buckles and brooches termed libulce, and about a 

 dozen of the bronze cutting instruments termed celts. 



Appended is a list of the members who attended the meeting : — Rev. W. 

 Elliot, President; Mr. George H. Piper, F.G.S., a former President; vice- 

 Presidents, Mr. H. Southall and Mr. F. Bainbridge. Members : Revs. W. 

 Bowell, E. J. HoUoway, H. B. D. Marshall, Wm. Bagnall-Oakeley, Thomas P. 

 Powell, D. Price, J. Stooke-Vaughan, and H. T. Williamson; Drs. T. A. 

 Chapman and J. H. Wood, Major Doughty, Messrs. H. C. Beddoe, J. Carless, jun., 

 R. Clarke, E. W. Colt Williams, Luther Davis, A. C. Edwards, S. Gilliat, 

 W. Grant, G. H. Hadfield, W. H. Harrison, T. Hutchinson, J. W. Lloyd, 

 T. C. Paris, H. Wilson, Mr. James B. Pilley, Assistant Secretary, and 

 Mr. H. C. Moore, Honorary Secretary. Members of Malvern Club — Rev. J. H. 

 Thompson (Vicar of Cradley), Messrs. Tom Bates, Sheppard, Hays ; and the 

 following visitors : Rev. J. O. Bevan, of Vowchurch ; Rev. Willis F. A. Lambert, 

 Rev. R. Remington, Messrs. Jenkins, T. Meadows, W. Pilley, J. Reynolds, 

 W. Sharland, and A. J. Steples. 



