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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1919 
ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS. 
Tuesday, February 18th, 1919. 
In the unavoidable absence of The President owing to stress of weather 
Mr. F. H. Bretherton was requested to take the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following Candidates were declared duly elected Members of the 
Club : — 
Philip Bridges, Holm Place, Stonehouse, proposed by G. W. Homer, 
seconded by E. Northam Witchell. 
Lieut.-Col. E. C. Dowse, 42 Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, proposed 
by J. C. Duke, seconded by G. M. Currie. 
Francis Frederick Pilliner, 14 Pittville Parade, Cheltenham, proposed 
by Rev. P. M. C. Johnstone, seconded by Roland Austin. 
It was agreed that if convenient to Mr. Richardson the presentation in 
recognition of his services as Hon. Secretary should be made at the next 
meeting 
The Secretary gave some particulars of the Romano-British burial-ground 
which had been found at Barn wood (reported in Proceedings, xx., pp. 59-62). 
Mr. C. I. Gardiner read a paper on “ Nitrogen : the destroyer and 
preserver of Life,” in which he dwelt on its use as an agent for enriching the 
soil, for counteracting disease, and in the manufacture of explosives for 
purposes of War. 
Tuesday, March 18th, 1919. 
W. St. Clair Baddeley, President, in the Chair. 
The President said that before beginning the ordinary business of the 
meeting the very pleasing duty devolved upon him of making a presentation 
to Air. L. Richardson, as a mark of the gratitude felt by the Club for the 
untiring services rendered during the period (1904-1916) in which he held 
office as Hon. Secretary. No more pleasant act on behalf of a Society could 
fall to its President, but unfortunately for him his term of office did not 
coincide with Mr. Richardson’s, and he would therefore ask Mr. Carles, with 
his more intimate knowledge, to speak of those services. 
Mr. Carles said that it gave him the greatest pleasure to speak from 
personal knowledge, covering many years, of the indefatigable and loyal 
services which Mr. Richardson had rendered to the Club, and of the energy 
and zeal which had marked all that he did to render their meetings 
attractive. He also recalled Mr. Richardson’s close association with the late 
Rev. Walter Butt, and his assistance in projecting the preparation of the 
Flora of the County, which their late President had so much at heart. Mr. 
Richardson’s own pubhshed work had established his reputation, for all his 
writing had grit in it. His acquaintance with the geology of the country 
extended far beyond Gloucestershire. 
Mr. Upton spoke of an association with Mr. Richardson which enabled 
him to endorse all that Mr. Carles had said, and he also referred to Mr. 
