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only those who were on terms of intimacy with him were 
aware of his sound and varied knowledge, and we have to 
regret that he did not contribute to our Proceedings. His 
arrangements of the Field Meetings were judiciously made, 
and their instructive and pleasurable character was mainly 
owing to his careful forethought; and I feel, as I am sure 
you all do, that in him we have lost an old and never-to-be- 
forgotten friend. 
LYDBROOK AND SYMOND’S YAT MEETING 
On Tuesday, the 27th May, the members left Gloucester 
for Lydbrook wid Berkeley and Lydney, and in passing over 
the Bridge the President exhibited and explained an elaborate 
section of the western side of the Severn estuary, made by Mr 
John Jones in 1858, during an excursion with Sir Wm. Guise, 
the Rev. W. 8. Symonds, and the President. 
On arriving at Lydbrook they were met by the Rev. 
F. J. Aldrich-Blake, the Rector of English Bicknor, who took 
them to the Church, a modern structure, erected in 1858 on 
part of the site of one built in the Fourteenth Century. The 
Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, supposed to be in honour 
of Margaret, Lady of Welsh Bicknor, the great grand daughter 
of Edward I., who married Lord Montacute, and who was the 
mother of the third Earl of Salisbury. There is an na in 
the Church said to be to her memory. 
At the Rectory Mr and Mrs Aldrich-Blake gave an exacted 
luncheon, with some of the celebrated styre cyder for which 
the parish is justly celebrated. 
Mr Aldrich-Blake shewed the members his very fine 
collection of paintings, including works by Rubens, Raphael, 
and other old masters, and also many works of the best modern 
school of painters. 
Thence to Bicknor Court, the residence of the Rev. EH. 
Machen. Mr Machen conducted the party through the cele- 
brated Coldwell Woods, the most beautiful scenery in the 
Forest. Openings are made in different parts of the wood, 
from which the Wye below is seen to great advantage. 
