162 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1906 
are some who say—and one at least who says it is worthy 
of attention—that we shall have before long to limit our 
numbers. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof! When 
the number of those joining the Field Meetings becomes 
unwieldly—let us say when it is always nearer 40 than 20 
—perhaps the Council may have some proposition to bring 
before their fellow members. But that will not be just yet. 
May I live to see, not a limitation of numbers, but some 
arrangement made whereby congestion is dealt with when- 
ever it shall arise. Shall Gloucestershire men fail, where 
Herefordshire, Somerset and Dorset men succeed? I am 
myself a member of several Field Clubs, whose Meetings 
are much more largely attended than our own, and it always 
seems to me that numbers at the place of assembly and at 
any subsequent trysting place make for enthusiasm, and an 
honest rivalry to be at least equal to one’s fellows in the 
loading up of wallet or vasculum. But I speak with a 
conviction that may be begotten of ignorance. 
By death we have lost an honorary Member—Mr Taylor, 
the well-known “ H.Y.J.T.” of the local Press. He was a 
most remarkable man, a strenuous worker, and never 
happier than when making researches into local history 
and tradition by means of newspaper files and such like 
somewhat dry and arid sources of information. 
By resignation we lose seven members. Dep.-Surgeon- 
Gen. T. Ringer unfortunately felt constrained to resign 
owing to continued ill-health. He was formerly a constant 
attendant at our meetings, and we have missed him. Dr 
James Berry, Mr T. Dyer-Edwardes, Rev Robert Hall, Col. 
A. W. Jamieson, Messrs H. C. McLaughlin and J. R. L. 
Rankin, and Captain A. Ryves are the others who have 
retired—the majority on account of being unable to attend 
the meetings of the Club. 
As, however, a number of new Members have joined 
us, we have been able to maintain and exceed our last 
