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Summary of Proceedings for the year 1897-98. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
A new year in the Field Club’s annals opened at the 
Anniversary Meeting on February 18th, 1897, when all the 
Officers of the previous year were re-elected to their several 
positions, and the Treasurer, after receiving like the other 
Officers, the hearty thanks of the Members for his past services, 
announced that the funds of the Club stood at the remarkably 
good position of £54 6s. to its credit. During the year the 
- Field Club lost from its ranks three members by death and one 
by resignation, and received seven recruits. Colonel J. T. 
Chandler, who departed this life on March 25, 1897, joined the 
Club in 1866, for many years was a regular attendant at the 
excursions and meetings, and after the retirement of Lieutenant- 
Colonel Edmund St. Aubyn served the office of Treasurer of the 
Club, until 1893, when he resigned in favour of the present 
Treasurer, Surgeon-Major Mantell. 
The Right Hon. Lord Carlingford and Clermont, K.P., became 
a Member of the Field Club in 1880. He was known as the 
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue in his active days of Parlia- 
mentary work, and having become the 4th husband of Frances 
Countess of Waldegrave (née Braham) he was raised to the 
Peerage in 1874 and became a resident in our county at The 
Priory, Chewton Mendip. He passed to his rest, aged 75 years, 
on January 31st, 1898, but for many years he was unseen by the 
Members at their meetings or excursions. 
A far more regular attendant than the latter, there passed 
away on August 18th, 1897, Lieut.-Colonel A, O. Tabuteau, 
F.G.S., a Member of the Field Club since 1883. Up to the date 
of his decease he seldom missed an excursion, and although his 
bodily ailments in his last years rendered him rather choleric and 
strange, his general good nature and affability always made him 

an acceptable guest at excursions. 
