230 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



It is with the deepest regret that I have to refer in this 

 Address to the very great loss that the Club has sustained 

 during the year in the death of the late Professor Harker, 

 the Hon. Secretary. In 1881 he had been appointed 

 to the chair of Natural History at the Royal Agricukural 

 College, Cirencester, and till within a fortnight of his 

 decease he continued his Lectures at the College. He 

 had been for a long time suffering from an insidious 

 disease ; and this in the beginning of the winter developed 

 the very gravest symptoms, which rendered an operation 

 imperatively necessary. This was skilfully carried out, 

 but the disease had obtained too firm a hold, and he 

 passed away on the 19th December, retaining all his fine 

 facuhies to the end. His knowledge, scientific and 

 practical, of all the subjects of his department, botany, 

 geology and zoology, was of a very high order, and his 

 teaching in lecture room, laboratory, on field excursions, 

 or to outside audiences, was always as attractive and genial 

 as it was sound. There will be present in the minds of 

 Members of the Club the recollection of many a 

 pleasant gathering at which his ripe and varied knowledge 

 largely contributed to the interest of the proceedings; and 

 it will be very long before his memory fades into 

 oblivion. 



The numbers of the Club have been well maintained 

 during the past year. Six members have resigned, — 

 Col. G. Fisher, E. Harford, Esq., Capt. Ross, Rev. G. F. 

 E. Shaw, H. Waddy, Esq., and C. A. Witchell, Esq. 

 Five new members have been elected, — Dr Ashton, Rev. 

 W. Butt, W. L. Mellersh, Esq., Dr E. W. Prevost, and 

 W. C. Wells, Esq. — and two candidates for election are 

 announced. 



The first Field Meeting was held at Malvern, on 

 Thursday, 24th May. The first place visited was the 

 Priory Church, a Norman Minster buried in perpendicular 

 work. The pillars in the nave are early Norman, the 



