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revenue has proved of great value j and should you approve my suggestion 

 of reckoning our complement of subscribing members exclusive of those 

 whom I have termed "consulting members," we may again look this 

 year to receive fi-om that source an important addition to our revenue. 



It is with pride and satisfaction that we can again point to the published 

 fasciculus of our transactions, which is this day placed in the hands of 

 members, and which fully maintains the character of the Club for good 

 and valuable work. Dr. Weight's first instalment of the Jurassic 

 Ammonites — a subject which he is so eminently qualified to treat — is a 

 worthy sequel to Mr. Jones's treatise on Gryphcea incurva and its 

 varieties, which formed so important a feature in our published work 

 last year. The manner, too, in which Mr. Salter has executed his share 

 of the work, in drawing upon stone the illustrations to Dr. Wright's 

 paper, must, I think, command our unqualified approbation. Such work 

 as this is, indeed, an honour to any scientific body, and that it should 

 emanate from the Cotteswold Club is a cii'cumstance to make us proud 

 of our Association, while it should prompt us to exert our individual 

 energies, not only to maintain our present position, but, if possible, to 

 extend our field of research and usefulness, by directing our attention 

 into other parts of the wide domain of nature, of which so much still 

 remains uninvestigated around us, and which it is one of our chief duties, 

 as local naturalists, to explore and illustrate. 



As an example of what may be done within a limited area by gentlemen 

 working together in concert, let me draw your attention to that which 

 has been efiected in the town of Cheltenham by a small body of active 

 naturalists, amongst whom are many members of the Cotteswold Club, 

 who, taking for their field of operations an area comprised within a circle 

 having a radius of seven mUes from Cheltenham, have set themselves to 

 work out a complete fauna and flora of the district; and with such success 

 have they laboured that, although the society was formed only in 1861, 

 they have already recorded 649 species of Flowering Plants and Ferns, 

 (112 of which are new to the district,) Mosses 146 species. Mammals 24, 

 Birds 159, Reptiles 8, Coleoptera 567, Hymenoptera 172, Mollusca 71, 

 Diatomacese 87. Surely this is a worthy example of what may be done 

 by patient industry directed to a specific end, and should be a spur and 

 incentive to us to endeavour to do that for the entire county which these 

 gentlemen are accomplishing, so usefully and so well, for the limited 

 district of Cheltenham. 



I have upon former occasions taken advantage of my office as your 

 president to urge upon you the duty of applying yourselves — each 



