PREFACE. 



HE past year has been one of quiet but steady pro- 

 gress. The Excursions and Lectures of the Society 

 have been very well attended, the latter having 

 indeed at times drawn so large an audience that 

 the Lecture Theatre has been most inconveniently 

 crowded. 



Lists of flowers and moths found in the Cheltenham district 

 are published this year, they are by no means complete, and it is 

 hoped that all members of the Society who take an interest in 

 Botany or Entomology, whether they are members of the Sections 

 which study those subjects or not, will do what they can to make the 

 lists more complete. That our lists are improving is shown by the 

 fact that seventy more flowers were noticed this year than last. 



Owing to the Old Chapel being now about to be used as a 

 Library and Museum, there is at last a chance that we may get 

 a little more space in our present Museum. Some of the things will 

 be moved out into the Old Chapel, though much of the space 

 there available for the museum will be filled with a collection of birds 

 not yet exhibited. 



It will probably be possible to keep the old Museum for a 

 Natural History Museum alone. 



The crying need in our Museum is for better arrangement of the 

 specimens, and at present it is so terribly crowded that this appears 

 impossible, with more space however it is hoped that the collections 

 will be of more value. 



The thanks of the Society are due to various O.C's. who have 

 made presentations to the Museum during the past year, a list of 

 which is published in this report. We must also thank VV. F. Hicks- 

 Beach, Esq., for allowing us to see the Roman Villa at Whitcomb, 

 when we had our excursion there last May. 



