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replacement by collective effort of the energy and enthusiasm which has been 

 quenched. This is not impossible, and it is certainly advisable in the interests of 

 the club. Surely the members would not be willing to admit that, collectively, 

 they are incapable of as much as one of their number found it possible to do ? 

 The non-resident members, recovering a little from the shock of this year, would 

 not refuse their co-operation in the future. Let those who remain ask themselves, 

 if they respect and revere the lost one, what would be his wishes had he remained, 

 and endeavour to carry them out. Gathered together in this memorable room, 

 which has already held so many similar gatherings, can we not imagine that his 

 spirit hovers over us to-day ; that it watches with some anxiety for the determina- 

 tion at which this meeting will arrive ; that, if it could speak, we should hear the 

 old watchword resounding through the length of this hall, with all its old energy, 

 and yet with all its old geniality, " Forward ! " Shall not the voice of the dead 

 have some influence with yuu, and stir you up to some firm resolution for the 

 future ? Will you disregard now the mandate which so often you have listened 

 to and obeyed ? But, if you fail, how can you ever enter wood or forest again 

 in these dull October days, watch the leaves falling, and hear 



" The forests utter a moan 



Like the voice of one who crieth 

 In the wilderness alone, 

 'Vex not his ghost.'" 



If you would maintain a kindly and a perpetual remembrance of one who was 

 ever a staunch friend and earnest worker for the Woolhope Club, you could not 

 do this more effectually than by keeping up in its integrity the annual re-unions 

 which he established, and did so much to maintain, in the interest of a pur.suit 

 which to him was almost a passion, through all changes, all mutations, like the 

 babbling brook " — 



" For men may come, and men may go. 

 But we go on for ever." 



