80 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1905 
Our fourth meeting, and therefore the last of the 
season, was held in the Chipping Norton district, and the 
very fact that our return drive would take us through the 
village of Churchill, the birthplace of “The Father of 
English Geology,” William Smith, was enough to bring 
us out, if only from respect to his memory, to whom, after 
all, we owe so much. As one who lives among gravel-pits, 
your president was naturally delighted to meet, in the 
Kingham pit, the type of Cotteswold gravel so distinct 
from his own. Some day or other he looks forward 
to reading in the Club’s Proceedings, or elsewhere—in 
the former for choice—a really exhaustive paper, or series 
of papers, upon our local gravels, upon the lines of treat- 
ment of the subject—though with the fuller knowledge of 
to-day—of our late valued member, Mr Lucy. 
As usual we were a little too much hurried, and so the 
fine Chastleton Hill Camp could not be visited. 
The Rollright Stones, in themselves eloquent, as they 
speak of all the mystery of a past that so strangely moves 
us as we look upon the evidences of their existence, gave 
Mr Sawyer and the so lately-elected member, Mr W. 
Crooke, an excellent opportunity of telling us something 
of the conclusions to which their studies of these and 
similar standing stones had led them. But where, when 
all is so obscure, shall the truth be found? An altogether 
pleasant day was closed by the hearty welcome which 
Lord and Lady Moreton gave us as we entered their 
charmingly situated house at Sarsden, and gratefully 
accepted their hospitality—a fitting end to the Summer 
Meetings of 1904. 
If I dismiss the Winter Meetings in two or three sen- 
tences, it will not be because I think them unimportant, 
for my opinion is far otherwise. They fulfil a distinct 
function in our corporate life. Those who take the 
trouble to read papers at these meetings—papers showing 
