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Shortly after three o’clock the party landed at Diglis lock, 
and gathered round Dr Day, who gave a most interesting and 
exhaustive paper on “ The Severn Fisheries,” which is published 
in our Proceedings. 
Notice of the postponed Meeting at Edgeworth for August 
25th, was duly sent to the Members, shewing an excellent 
programme arranged by Mr Witchell, with a kind invitation to 
the Club from Mr James of The Manor House. Alas! this 
Meeting had to be indefinitely postponed owing to the sudden 
and lamentable death of Mr Witchell, on the 20th of August, 
who was to be our guide. 
The First Winter Meeting was held at the Science School, 
at Gloucester, on Nov. 26th, 1887. The President opened the 
Session by alluding to the great loss the Club had sustained in 
the death of three of its distinguished Members—Sir W. V. 
Guise, the Rev. W. S. Symonds and Mr Witchell—and his 
remarks were very ably supplemented by Dr Day, Vice-President. 
Professor Harker read a valuable paper on “The Natural 
History of the Gall Midges,” which is published in the Pro- 
ceedings. In conclusion, the Professor said he could not allow 
the occasion of the first meeting of the Club, since the loss of 
its distinguished and revered late President, to pass without 
adding his tribute of respect and affection for the memory of 
Sir William Guise. For more than ten years he had met and 
corresponded with him on Natural History matters. Sir 
William was an ardent and humble student of nature, always 
eager to learn and to follow up a question to its conclusion. 
In one so gifted this was the index of a truly great man. 
On Tuesday January 17th, 1888, the Second Winter 
Meeting took place, and the first paper “On the Behaviour of 
Granites and Granulites at High Temperatures ” was given by 
the Rev. Dr Smithe, Vice-President—a subject little under- 
stood, and which was treated in a masterly manner. The paper 
is published in our Proceedings. 
Mr ©. A. Witchell followed with a paper entitled ‘“‘ Obser- 
vations on the Reptiles of Gloucestershire,” the result of 
careful investigations made by the author, given in a natural 
