Wtoolljopj naturalists' JFitli) Club. 



1889. 



The Annual Meeting of the Club was held at the Woolhope Club Room, 

 Hereford, on Tuesday, April 9th : present — Rev. Prebendary Elliot (the President, 

 in the chair), the Mayor (Mr. H. C. Beddoe), Revs. J. E. Grasett, E. J. Hollo way, 

 A. W. Horton, Augustin Ley, H. B. D. Marshall, Messrs. T. Cam, J. Carless, R. 

 Clarke, James Davies, Gilbert Davies, T. Hutchinson, C. (J. Martin, W. Pilley, 

 O. Shellard, A. Watkins, Dr. Fitzsimons, H. C. Moore (Hon. Secretary), and 

 James B. Pilley (Assistant Secretary). The financial statement for the year 1888 

 having been presented, it was resolved to proceed with the publication of the 

 Transactions for the years 1883, 1884, and 1885. A letter from Mrs. Bull was 

 read, enclosing a cheque for £10 towards the illustrations of this volume, and 

 announcing the presentation by her to the Club of 300 photographs of the late Dr. 

 Bull, which will form the frontispiece of the book. It was ordered that the.se 

 very generous offers should be entered on the minutes. "The Flora of Hereford- 

 shire," by the Rev. William H. Purchas and the Rev. Augustin Ley, recently 

 published, was distributed to subscribing members. The following gentlemen 

 were elected members of the Club:— Rev. A. H. Seacome and Mr. Guy Trafford; 

 Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips, F.L.S., member of the International Permanent 

 Ornithological Committee, was elected an honorary member ; and five names were 

 proposed for election at the next meeting. The following places and dates were 

 fixed upon for the Field Meetings of the present year : Thursday, May 23r(l, Titley 

 and Presteiga ; Tuesday, June 18th, I^adies' Day, Newlaiid, in the Forest of 

 Dean ; Friday, July 19th, Hay and the Golden Valley ; Thursday, August 22nd, 

 Malvern and East Herefordshire for Geology. The date for the Fungus Foray 

 will be fixed hereafter, in order to suit the convenience of Dr. Fries, son of the 

 late eminent mycologist, Elias Fries, who is expected from Sweden. It is 

 expected that Ludlow and its neighbourhood will be selected for the Foray. In 

 addition to books obtained by interchange with other kindred Naturalists' 

 Societies, the Club has received during the past year the following valuable 

 contributions : — A collection of Mosses, and a few Geological specimens from the 

 executors of the late Rev. J. F. Crouch, of Pembridge ; and the Herbarium of the 

 County, arranged by the Rev. Augustin Ley. Mr. Thomas Blashill was 

 appointed a delegate to the Conference of the Society of Antiquaries to be held on 

 May 7th at Burlington House. Agreeably to a proposition received from the 

 Rev. F. T. Havergal, D.D., a committee was constituted for supplying local 

 information from Herefordshire to Mr. Arthur Hall, 13, Paternoster Row, for his 

 Topographical Dictionary of British Prehistoric Antiquities. Mr. R. W. Banks, 

 of Kington, Mr. Geo. H. Piper, Mr. James Davies (Secretary for Herefordshire 

 of the Cambrian Archseologfical Society), and Mr. Thomas Blashill are members 

 who have acquired much information on this subject, whilst many others can 

 assist by their contributions. 



