TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEARS 1895, 1896, 1897. Officers for 1895, 1896, 1897 List of Honorary Members List of Ordinary Members ... Members elected in 1895, 1896, and 1897 Rules of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Presidents of the Club since its establishment in 1851 : Review of the Volume, 1893-1894 Annual Spring Meeting, Friday, April 5th ... 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 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 ... Annual Autumn Meeting, Thursday, November 14th Ornithology in Herefordshire during 1895, by W. C. Ashdown, F.Z.S. 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 PAGE. 137 140 141* 142 ... The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, by Flavell Edmunds ... A visit to the Works of the proposed Birmingham Water Supply from The The Physiography of the District, by H. Cecil Moore 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 146 150 153 163 170 176 181 ... 185 189 ... 191 Downton Castle and the Valley of the Teme, by Rev. Joseph Barker Fourth Field Meeting, Friday, August 28th, 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 Annual Autumn Meeting, Thursday, November 19th, 1896 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 Archæological Survey of Herefordshire, Part 2, and of other Counties King's Pyon ... ... Notes on Wormesley Church, by Rev. A. Relton ... ... Second Field Meeting, Thursday, June 17th. Olchon Valley and the Black ... Botanical Notes on Olchon Dingle, the Black Mountains, and Cusop Dingle, Natural History Notes on the district, by W. E. de Winton 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 288 293 Dudley, Geology of the district, the caverns, &c., by H. Cecil Moore The preparation of Marine animals and plants as transparent lantern slides, by Dr. H. C. Sorby ... Annual Autumnal Meeting, Tuesday, December 7th, 1897... ... Note on a Contribution to the Fauna of Herefordshire-Mollusca Obituary in 1897... ... ... The Passage Beds at Ledbury, by George H. Piper, F.G.S. 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 25 25 ... 16 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 5 Second Report of Parish Registers, with Calendar of Registers... 6 Photographic Survey of England and Wales 28 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 |