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Annual Address, read at the Ram Inn, Gloucester, 

 Wednesday, 26th February, 1862, by W. V. Guise, 

 F.L.S. F.G.S. President. 



Gentlemen of the Cotteswold Club. - In accordance with our 

 established custom, it becomes my duty at this period of the year to 

 lay before you a report upon the condition and prospects of our 

 Society; and it is encouraging, at this the commencement of another 

 season, to be able to assure you, not only of the undiminished health 

 and vitality of the Club, as testified by our still increasmg numbers 

 and by the greater amount of interest and intelligence brought to 

 bear upon the different subjects of our research, but still more 

 cheering is it to find a marked improvement in the number and 

 quality of the papers read before us at our periodical meetmgs. In 

 this latter respect, the past season wHl compare advantageously with 

 any of its predecessors, and, indeed, bids fair to mark a new epoch in 

 our existence. I attribute this improvement in some degree to the 

 more earnest spirit by which we have been animated; but more 

 particularly to the influence of the Resolution adopted at our annual 

 meeting, at Tewkesbury, last year, when a Committee was appointed 

 for the purpose of superintending the printing of our papers, and with 

 a view to prepare for publication papers and figures in illustration of 

 original communications on the Geology of the Cotteswold District 

 To the latter portion of this resolution, in especial, I attach great 

 value and importance. And though various circumstances have 

 operated to cause a delay in carrying it into effect.-prominently 

 amongst which I may mention the difficulty of finding skilled artists 

 to undertake the work,-yet the matter has been carefully kept in 

 view by your Committee, and there is reason to believe that such 

 arran<.ements may shortly be completed as will ensure the practical 

 operation of a design which is calculated to be of so much service to 

 Geoloc^ical science, and which cannot fail to confer honor upon the 

 Cotteswold Club. It is proposed to publish from time to time 

 Monographs of the different families of fossil invertebrata charactenstic 

 of the" Cotteswold district. Of these Dr. Wright has undertaken 



