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ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS, 1917 
Tuesday, February 20th, 1917. 
W. St. Cl.air Baddeley, President, in the Chair. 
The President referred to the deaths of three Members since the previous 
meeting. By the death of Archdeacon Scobcll they would miss one who 
possessed in marked degree the characteristic of helping in a practical and 
sympathetic way every movement with which he was connected, and who 
took enormous pains in his administrative work. His membership of th:- 
Club dated from 1883, since when he had shown continuous interest in its 
objects and pursuits, being himself a great lover of Nature and a keen observer 
of country customs and folk-lore, to which he had made printed contributions. 
In Mr J. W. Skinner they had lost a safe authority and enthusiastic student of 
botany. IMajor Wenden took considerable interest in county matters, 
especially in the local literature of Gloucestershire. 
Mr G. W. Homer, of Roweroft, Stroud, proposed by William Thompson, 
seconded by John C. Frith, ^yas elected a Member. 
The Secretary submitted a list of Rub us for Gloucestershire, drawn up 
by the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, editor of the County Flora, in which there are 
some 1 18 na,med forms for the whole County, of which no occur in the 
western, and 52 in the eastern division. The Rev. Walter Butt, who had 
examined the list, had written the Secretary a letter, in the course of which 
he said : — 
“ The List is a perfectly wonderful production. No County Flora 
—so far as I am aware — has anything like so full a list of Rubi, not 
even Ley’s list in the Llerefordshire Flora. . . . The Rubi are among 
the most critical of plants. All our sheets about which there was the 
slightest doubt have been through IMr Moyle Rogers’s hands, and he 
is the greatest British authority. But as a matter of fact, Riddelsdell 
has himself become an acknowledged expert of the Rubi. So this list is 
of great value, as being accurate so far as our knowledge of to-day goes. 
Specimens of all are here in my Herbarium.” 
Thanks were expressed to Mr Riddelsdell for his excellent list, and a 
suggestion that it should be printed in the “ Proceedings ” was approved. 
i\Ir J. W. Gray exhibited a fine specimen of Keuper Marl, in which were 
embedded matrices of rock crystal. 
Mr F. J. Cullis communicated notes on “ Gloucester as a Fortress.” 
In the course of his paper, Mr Cullis (without, however, pressing the 
points suggested) dwelt on the fact that from early days Gloucester was a 
