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Brook Kay, of Cheltenham; and, among those who were 
until recently Members of the Club, Mr C. A. Witchell 
and Dr T. Ringer. 
The son of Mr Edwin Witchell, an accomplished local 
geologist and energetic Member of our Club, Mr C. A. 
Witchell was at one time the most prominent naturalist 
in the county. In his devotion to the study in the field 
of all forms of animal life, he has been compared to the 
late Mr Richard Jefferies. He was the editor of the 
“Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire,” and the author of 
the “Evolution of Bird Song,” the “Cries and Calls of 
Wild Birds,” and of several papers in the Proceedings of 
this Club, and of various articles in “‘ The Field.” His 
“Story of the Year” received well merited attention. 
After retiring from this Club a few years ago, he accepted 
the post of Hon. Secretary of the Cheltenham Natural 
Science Society, which he held until October last, and in 
which he continued to show the same keen interest in 
Natural History as before. In Mr Witchell, the world of 
naturalists has lost a patient and observant student, and the 
literary world a man of no small genius. 
As regards the literary work done by Members of the 
Club, I have not been able to obtain nearly’ as much 
information as I would desire. Mr S. S. Buckman has 
published “ Bibliographic Notes on Murchison’s Geology 
of Cheltenham,” and papers in the “ Quarterly Journal of 
the Ge ological Society,” and “ Annals and Magazine of 
Natural History.” Our Hon. Secretary, Mr Richardson, 
has contributed papers on geological subjects to the 
“Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,” the “ Geo- 
logical Magazine,” and the “Transactions of the Worces- 
tershire Naturalists’ Field Club,” of which Club he has been 
elected an Hon. Member. Mr W. Crooke has published 
a work on “The Peoples of Northern India,” and added 
“Things Indian” to the excellent series which started 
