PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 201 



During the year there has also passed away one of the 

 last, if not the last, link between the Cotteswold Club of 

 to-day and of fifty years ago. The Rev. P. B. Brodie, 

 F.G.S., who died in November last, was one of the earliest 

 members of the Club, for he was elected in 1849; and 

 as President of the Warwickshire Field Club he was an 

 ex-officio honorary member of our Club at the time of his 

 death. While curate of Down Hatherley, from 1840-1853, 

 he was an earnest student of geology, and contributed 

 some valuable papers to the Club's Proceedings. After 

 leaving Gloucestershire he continued his geological in- 

 vestigations with great zeal, chiefly devoting himself to 

 a study of insects and vertebrates. The collections he 

 made in these two branches of Palaeontology, in the course 

 of half-a-century, were unique. About three years ago the 

 British Museum acquired many of his specimens of fossil 

 vertebrates, and it has now purchased the rarer and unique 

 examples from his collection of fossil insects. The name 

 of Brodie ranks with those of Wright, Lycett, Buckman, 

 Lucy, Jones, Witchell and other early members whose 

 contributions to geological science have shed great lustre 

 upon the Cotteswold Club. 



During the year four Field Excursions have been made : 

 one to the Forest of Dean, the next to Beverstone and 

 Malmesbury, the third to the neighbourhood of Chelten- 

 ham, the last to Thornbury and Aust Cliff. 



The day's programme in the Forest of Dean (May 24th) 

 included a descent of the Trafalgar CoUiery, an inspection 

 of an Electrical Fuse Factory, and a visit to some stalactite 

 caves near Symond's Yat. 



In the jjrosecution of these scientific objects, some 

 very lovely parts of the Forest of Dean were passed 

 through, especially lovely at the time as many of the en- 

 closures were seen to be literally carpeted with masses of 



