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As regards our numbers, though there has been some diminu- 

 tion by deaths and resignations, these vacancies will be shortly 

 filled from the list of candidates awaiting election. Of those 

 who have been taken from us by the stroke of death, occur the 

 names of two of our oldest and most valued associates, Mr. 

 Davyd Nash and the Rev. Canon Lysons, whose merits call for 

 more than a passing notice at my hands. 



Though ill-health had of late years deprived the Club of the 

 presence of Mr. Nash, his memory will be kept alive amongst 

 us by the recollections of his great and varied abilities, and of 

 his genial humour. Of the latter quality our Transactions 

 contain capital samples in "A day with the Cotteswold Club " 

 and other witty rhymes, in which his facile pen has described in 

 the happiest manner, some of those pleasant incidents, which, 

 while they add a zest to our labours, relieve with a touch of 

 the ludicrous the more grave and earnest pursuits in which we 

 are engaged. 



From a notice in the Cheltenham Examiner, I learn that 

 Davyd Nash was a Bristolian by birth, and was at first 

 designed for the practice of medicine, with which view he 

 was specially educated at the London University, where he 

 distinguished himself by carrying off all the honors and medals 

 for which he competed. As a consequence, he at once obtained 

 a Cadetship and a good appointment in India, which however, 

 he was obliged to resign through ill health. On his return to 

 England he abandoned the medical profession and turned his 

 attention to the law, entering at the Middle Temple. In due 

 time he was called to the bar, and practised with success, both 

 on circuit and in the local courts at Bristol, in the neighbourhood 

 of which city he had, after some stay in Cheltenham, for a time 

 settled. During that stay in Cheltenham, Mr. Nash took an 

 active part in promoting the objects of the late Literary and 

 Philosophical Institution, before the members of which body, 

 he delivered the first course of lectures on geology ever 

 given in Cheltenham, and at one of the Society's meetings 

 unrolled and described the only Egyptian Mummy ever brought 

 into the town, which is still preserved in the museum of the 



