POSTSCRIPT. 



As this Address goes forth to the Great "World (of the Cotteswold 

 Club) without the usual concomitants of scientific papers, (Sir 

 Thomas Tancred having — I think unfairly — robbed it of all the 

 sugar plums lawfully belonging to it, to add them to his own 

 address, which, like the good wine that needs no bush, had merit 

 enough to have stood alone) — I think myself fortunate in being 

 permitted to append the two following morceaux which — if not of 

 the strictly scientific character usually displayed in our papers — 

 shew at least the variety and scope of our studies in the learned 

 languages. 



The first may be taken as a model for the kind of application for 

 admission to the Cotteswold Club, usually expected from the Candidates 

 (we wish we may get — many such). 



The second is especially valuable to the members of a Gloucester- 

 shire Club (though apparently not actually written by one of our 

 members — what then — are we not to claim the Astropecten 

 Cotteswoldias (Buckman) unless we prove that Mr. Buckman made 

 it ?) — especially valuable, I say, from its retaining in its purity a 

 specimen of that noble and classical language formerly spoken in the 

 Vale of Gloucestershire, ere the inexorable rod of a ruthless host 

 of English schoolmasters had swept it from our country. 



