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Silurian Gastropoda at May Hill in the year 1867; and 
he gave a paper thereon, which is published in our Pro- 
ceedings (Vol. ViI., p. 62), illustrated by a plate. 
In addition to these studies Dr. Smithe was also inter- 
ested in Mineralogy. He gave us a paper on Vivianite, 
another on Celestite, and another on the behaviour of 
granites at high temperatures—all important contributions. 
Altogether nine papers by him are published in our Pro- 
ceedings, but this does not fully represent his work, 
for I find in. Vol: VII... p. 14,:that he gave:a paper 
on the “Distribution of Liassic Brachiopoda in the 
Cotteswolds,” which, though described by the President as 
‘a valuable contribution,” was never published. A sum- 
mary of it is given in Davidson’s “ Supplement to British 
Jurassic Brachiopoda,” p. 230, a work which bears adequate 
testimony to the help given by our late colleague in this 
branch of science, and indicates that his written papers 
form only a small portion of his scientific studies. 
I am indebted to our Secretary for some of the fore- 
going details. 
As regards the work that the Club has accomplished 
during the past year, I may say that we had a good series 
of Field Meetings, and a particularly valuable set of papers 
for our Winter Meetings. 
Our first Field Meeting was held at Malvern on May 
22nd, under the guidance of Dr. C. Callaway, the geology 
of the Malverns and the archeology of the British Camp 
being the objects of the excursion. 
Our second, a two days’ Meeting, was held on June 
23rd and 24th at Westbury, with Trowbridge for our 
head-quarters ; and the assistance of the Rey. W. Butt on 
this occasion deserves full acknowledgment. 
On July 26th Belas Knap and Hailes Abbey afforded 
material for our third Field Meeting—a wholly archzo- 
