2 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB I9OI 
Death has also removed one of our oldest members, the 
Rev. Frederick Smithe, LL.D., F.G.S., for a long time one 
of our Vice-Presidents, whose retirement from our ranks 
owing to his ill-health was noticed in the Presidential 
Address last year. 
Dr. Smithe was born in 1822 of an Irish family, and died 
on December 9th, 1900, being, therefore, in his seventy- 
ninth year. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, 
graduated B.A. in 1853, M.A. in 1856, and the degree 
LL.D. was conferred on him in 1874. Having taken up 
the Church as his profession, he was ordained Deacon in 
the year 1854 and Priest in 1855, by the Bishop of Glou- 
cester and Bristol. He was presented to the living of 
Churchdown in the year 1858, the same year that he was 
elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. He held this 
living from that date to the time of his death. He was 
elected a member of our Club at the Annual Meeting, 
February 15, 1859, the same day that our late President, 
W. C. Lucy, was elected a member, and that the late Sir 
William Guise was first elected President. 
Dr. Smithe’s scientific studies were principally devoted 
to the geology and palzontology of the Middle and Upper 
Lias rocks so well exposed in his own parish; but he also 
extended his researches to similar deposits in other parts 
of the county, giving to our Proceedings five papers as the 
result of his observations. 
Dr. Smithe was also an ardent conchologist. He 
formed a fine collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda, to 
illustrate Dr. S. P. Woodward's well-known “ Manual of 
Mollusca.” This collection consists of some 800 genera 
and 2000 species: it is a collection so valuable for 
teaching purposes that one wishes it could be retained in 
the county. 
In connection with this subject I should mention that 
Dr. Smithe was the first to discover the opercula of 
