TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEARS 1895, 1896, 1897. The Honorary Treasurer's Accounts for 1895, 1896, 1897 xvii., xviii., xix. ... The Frost of January and February, 1895, by H. Cecil Moore The Hurricane of March 24th, 1895, by H. Cecil Moore Address of the Retiring President, Mr. James Davies First Field Meeting, Tuesday, May 26th.-Atcham Church, Wroxeter, and Second Field Meeting, Friday, June 28th.-Wapley Camp, The Rodd, and A chat about Conifers. The beautiful collection at Presteign, by Dr. Crespi 43 Third Field Meeting, Tuesday, July 23rd (Ladies' day).—The Crown Woods at Highmeadow, Staunton Church, The Buckstone, and the Speech The Wolf in Britain. Short Notes on, by H. Cecil Moore The Keltic Lanes of South Herefordshire, by Rev. M. G. Watkins A new form of Pyrus, by Rev. A. Ley 46 Fourth Field Meeting, Friday, August 30th.-Caerwent, Caldicot, and the ... ... ... The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, by Rev. Joseph Barker Battlefield Oak, or Gospel Oak, and the Blue Mantle Cottages, by H. Cecil Moore The Gospel Yew.-Note by George H. Piper The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, by Flavell Edmunds PAGE. 137 Second Field Meeting. Tuesday, June 23rd.-The Works of the proposed Birmingham Water Supply from The Elan Valley in Wales ... ... A visit to the Works of the proposed Birmingham Water Supply from The Elan Valley in Wales, by H. Cecil Moore The Physiography of the District, by H. Cecil Moore 150 .. 153 Pot-holes, and the erosion of Rock-basins, by Tom. D. La Touche ... The late extraordinary season 1894-5, including frosts, winds, and effects on vegetation, by H. Southall... Notes on Earth-temperatures and burst water pipes, by H. Cecil Moore Downton Castle and the Valley of the Teme, by Rev. Joseph Barker Fourth Field Meeting, Friday, August 28th, Droitwich Analysis of the principal European mineral springs by John Humphreys, F.L.S. Notes on the Geology and Botany of the neighbourhood of Droitwich, Droitwich and its salt springs, by Dr. Crespi The Geology of Colwall district, with notes on the discovery of ... General remarks. Origin of salt, by H. Cecil Moore Mollusca of Herefordshire. Notes respecting, by Arthur E. Boycott and Ernest W. W. Bowell Annual Autumn Meeting, Thursday, November 19th, 1896 181 185 189 191 194 196 197 199 202 207 212 215 Abundance of larvæ of Acherontia atropos, the Death's head moth.. ... ... The Earthquake of December 17th, 1896, by H. Cecil Moore, Robert Clarke, and Alfred Watkins Dr. Davison's list of Questions on the occurrence of an Earthquake 1897. Annual Spring Meeting, Friday, April 23rd 236 Proposed alteration of Rule IX. 236 Archæological Survey of Herefordshire, Part 2, and of other Counties 237 First Field Meeting, Friday, May 27th. Wormesley and the Butt House, King's Pyon 238 Comments on Rev. W. E. T. Morgan's Notes Botanical Notes on Olchon Dingle, the Black Mountains, and Cusop Dingle, Natural History Notes on the district, by W. E. de Winton PAGE. 242 Notes on Wormesley Church, by Rev. A. Relton Notes on Wormesley Priory, by Rev. R. Hyett Warner 2441 Second Field Meeting, Thursday, June 17th. Olchon Valley and the Black ... 257 Notes on Olchon, by Rev. W. E. T. Morgan 264 266 288 293 Some few principal heights in the adjacent counties, by H. Cecil Moore Slight Earthquake on July 19th, 1897 Notes on Entomology Third Field Meeting, Thursday, July 29th, 1897. Dudley. Notes on Dudley Castle, by Wm. Madeley Dudley, Geology of the district, the caverns, &c., by H. Cecil Moore The preparation of Marine animals and plants as transparent lantern slides, Annual Autumnal Meeting, Tuesday, December 7th, 1897 ... Rare and Interesting Mosses in the neighbourhood of Kington, by Rev. Note on a Contribution to the Fauna of Herefordshire-Mollusca The Passage Beds at Ledbury, by George H. Piper, F.G.S. 302 303 3 Great hoard of Roman Coins found at Bishop's Wood. By Mary E. Bagnall-Oakeley 4 Pyrus minima, with a plate, by Rev. Augustin Ley 5 Second Report of Parish Registers, with Calendar of Registers... 222 6 Photographic Survey of England and Wales 6 7 Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom. Form of Schedule 18 8 The Collection, preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of Geological interest in the United Kingdom 8 Transactions of the Woolhope Club FOR 1893-94. The following review of the Volume 1893-1894 appeared in The Hereford Journal of October 10th, 1896. Two years ago we had the pleasure of putting together a lengthy review of the Transactions of the Woolhope Club for 1890, 91-92. We now have equal pleasure in reviewing the volume for 1893-4. This volume is particularly worthy of notice, as it is the sixth edited by Mr. Henry Cecil Moore, the President of the Club for this year (1896). These six volumes cover no fewer than 18 years. Not many editors have such a record, and we venture to hope that Mr. Moore will live to edit many other volumes, and that his connection with the Club, to which he has generously devoted so many thousand valuable and laborious hours, will end only with his life, and that we trust will not be for many long years. The present volume is large, and full of valuable matter. It contains 260 closely printed pages of reports and articles, besides 89 pages of "Additions to the Flora of Herefordshire" from the pen of that distinguished and accurate observer, the Rev. Augustin Ley, of Sellack. There are also two long but invaluable indexes of the archæological papers published in England in 1893 and 1894. We should be doing scant justice to the editor were we not to congratulate him on the careful editing of this large and well-printed volume. The labour he has faced so cheerfully is enormous, while the correspondence it has entailed is very trying; a single article may mean the thought and research of many months. Careful editing is not the least claim the present volume has on the reader's attention. Reading proofs, though mere child's play to the practised writer, especially should he, like the author of this review, have contributed hundreds of long articles to quarterlies and magazines, is not easy to the beginner. The literary tyro may have a dozen flagrant misprints staring him full in the face, but he passes them over unheeded, whereas the practised proof reader pounces upon them like the hawk on her quarry. We took up the Transactions of a far larger and more aristocratic club than the Woolhope; the editor is a barrister, a Master of Arts, and heir to an earldom; the president is even more aristocratic, while the treasurer is an M.A. and F. R.S. Well, we turned to a paper on Art by a Master of Arts of eminence, and we found Zurburan instead of Zurbaran; Velaspez in the next line for Velasquez; Georgione for Giorgione; Rafael for Raphael or Raffaelle; Duke Arbino for, we presume, the Duke d'Urbino; Georgione again lower down, and Sansorine for Sansovino, while, quite as horrible, there stared at us Annibal |