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NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A. 



( Read May 4th, 1909.) 



OBITUARY. 



Y'ESTERDAY (May 3rd), seven years ago, our Club 

 was thrown into mourning by the loss which it 

 sustained in the death of one who had been its 

 Father and President for 27 years, and to whom it 

 owed, and still owes, more than to any other 

 individual. Since then it has lost by death no 

 officer or vice-president, though many valuable 

 Members. And now I have, with deep regret, to 

 record the removal from us of three of our vice- 

 residents Mr. Wilfrid H. Hudleston, the great geologist ; Mr. 

 Henry Storks Eaton, the great meteorologist ; and Mr. Reginald 

 Bosworth Smith, whose literary talents and bird-lore were so well 

 known. Mr. Hudleston was a Fellow of the Royal Society and 

 a Past-President of the Geological Society, and during the years 

 he has resided in Dorset has taken the greatest interest in our 

 Club, being always ready to help at our meetings with his 

 geological and other knowledge and contributing many valuable 



