76 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1905 
Transactions of the Society of our sister county of 
Worcester, and of course in our own Proceedings. It is 
the record of much industry. 
From our present we go to our late secretary—late, 
happily, only as regards his office. 
Here again we are confronted with a lengthy list of 
publications upon the subjects of which he is such an 
acknowledged master. To give a particular list now might 
conceivably be thought wearisome. And if the truth must 
be told, I hardly dare to approach the pronunciation 
of some of the words to be found. He has published 
papers in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 
the Museums Journal, and Proceedings of the Geologists’ 
Association ; whilst he has contributed another part of his 
standard work on Inferior-Oolite Ammonites to the 
Palzeontographical Society's publications. Mention should 
perhaps here be made of the fact that the actual amount 
forwarded to Mr Buckman, as a slight recognition of the 
Club’s appreciation of his services, was 450, and that 
he acknowledged its receipt in a graceful letter of thanks, 
which I had the pleasure of communicating to the mem- 
bers present at the first Field-Meeting held at Fairford. 
Mr C. A. Witchell published a book in September last, 
under the title of “‘ The Cultivation of Man.” To say the 
least, it contained some very startling views, set forth, as 
such views might easily not have been set forth, with 
an enviable spirit of respect for the views of others. 
Whatever may be said as to the opinions of the-writer, as 
expressed in his book, we cannot but applaud the temper 
with which he approaches and deals with his subject. It 
is not very often that a writer has the courage to look to 
the public of to-morrow, rather than of to-day, to set 
the seal of approval or condemnation to his work. This 
Mr Witchell Zas done. 
Mr J. W. Gray has given to the world “ Shakespeare’s 
Marriage and Departure from Stratford,” which has been 
