TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEARS 1895, 1896, 1897. The Honorary Treasurer's Accounts for 1895, 1896, 1897 xvii., xviii., xix. XX. xxiii. PAGE. ... ... 137 The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, by Rev. Joseph Barker ... ... The Gospel Yew.-Note by George H. Piper 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 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 Notes on the Geology and Botany of the neighbourhood of Droitwich, 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 British Mycological Society... 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 Proposed alteration of Rule IX. Archæological Survey of Herefordshire, Part 2, and of other Counties First Field Meeting, Friday, May 27th. Wormesley and the Butt House, Second Field Meeting, Thursday, June 17th. Olchon Valley and the Black Mountains Notes on Olchon, by Rev. W. E. T. Morgan Comments on Rev. W. E. T. Morgan's Notes Botanical Notes on Olchon Dingle, the Black Mountains, and Cusop Dingle by Rev. A. Ley Natural History Notes on the district, by W. E. de Winton Heights in Herefordshire, by H. Cecil Moore Dudley, Geology of the district, the caverns, &c., by H. Cecil Moore Fourth Field Meeting, Friday, August 27th, 1897. Wyre Forest, Bewdley Ribbesford Church, and the "Hermitage" at Blackstone Archæological Survey of Herefordshire. Part II., Mediæval Evening Meeting, Thursday, October 28th, 1897 The preparation of Marine animals and plants as transparent lantern slides by Dr. H. C. Sorby Annual Autumnal Meeting, Tuesday, December 7th, 1897... Rare and Interesting Mosses in the neighbourhood of Kington, by Re C. H. Binstead Note on a Contribution to the Fauna of Herefordshire-Mollusca NO OF 3 Great hoard of Roman Coins found at Bishop's Wood. By Mary F Bagnall-Oakeley 4 Pyrus minima, with a plate, by Rev. Augustin Ley 5 Second Report of Parish Registers, with Calendar of Registers ... 6 Photographic Survey of England and Wales 7 Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom. Form of Schedule 8 The Collection, preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photograph of Geological interest in the United Kingdom 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 Arbing for we presume the Duke d'Urbino Georgione again lower down |