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namely, the collecting and systematising facts in illustration of 
the Natural History of our own county, .I propose to place these 
specimens in the hands of our able friend and Secretary Professor 
Buckman, for deposition in the Museum of the Royal Agricultural 
College, at Cirencester, where they may serve as a nucleus for 
the gradual accumulation of the entire series of Cheiroptera 
indigenous to the county of Gloucester. 
