2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



Totnes, and aunt of xMr Charles Babbage, the Mathema- 

 tician, and inventor of the Calculating Machine, which 

 bears his name, and whose son is, I am glad to say, one of 

 our Members. 



Mr Taunton was, through life, actively engaged as an 

 Engineer — was for a time in Mr I. K. Brunei's office in 

 London, and afterwards employed by him in making the 

 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, in the 

 neighbourhood of Moreton-in-Marsh. 



For thirty years he was Engineer of the Thames and 

 Severn Canal, and was often called in as an Hydraulic 

 Engineer in the construction of various water works. 



He was a frequent attendant at the Field and Evening 

 Meetings, and contributed to our Proceedings the follow- 

 ing papers : — 



" Remarks on the Watershed of the Cotteswolds in connection with 



the Water Supply to the xMetropoHs." " Vol. I\', 249. 

 " Sapperton Tunnel on the Thames and Severn Canal." Vol. V, 255. 



" Description of the Malmesbury Water Works." Vol. VI, 301. 



" Notes on the Hydrology of the Cotteswolds." Vol. IX, 52. 



" Visit to the Boxwell Springs." Vol. IX, 70. 



" Notes on the Dynamic Geology of Palestine." Vol. X, 323. 



The paper " Notes on the Hydrology of the Cottes- 

 wolds," contains an unusually large amount of valuable 

 information, illustrated by beautifully executed diagrams. 



WOOLHOPE 



On June 23rd a large party proceeded by Great Western 

 Railway to Ledbury, to examine the area not visited last 

 year. The weather, as on that occasion, was extremely 

 unsettled, but it afterwards cleared up, and in the intervals 

 of sunshine the beautiful scenery came out to great 

 advantage. 



Our kind friend, Mr G. H. Piper, of Ledbury, accom- 

 panied by Mr Moore, the Hon. Sec. of the Woolhope 



