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Annual Address to the Cotteswold Field Cluh, read at Gloucester 

 on Thursday, 6th March, 1873, by the President, Sir W. V. 

 Guise, Bart., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Gentlemen, — 



I have much pleasure in reporting that the condition of the 

 Club continues to be in all respects satisfactory. 



There has been delay in the issue of the Transactions for 

 the past season. For that delay I am primarily responsible, 

 having mislaid Mr. Etheeidge's paper on the " Physical Struc- 

 ture of the Watchet Area." The paper, when found, had to be 

 returned to the author for additions and corrections; and for 

 the further delay the printer is responsible. The vohime is 

 now, however, in the hands of members ; and I may be permitted 

 to congratulate them on their possessing in Mr. Ethebidge's 

 paper, with its accompanying sections, one of the most valuable 

 contributions to our Transactions which the Club has ever 

 pubhshed. 



I desire to draw the attention of Cotteswold Geologists to a 

 paper by Dr. Albert Gunthee, E.E..S., in the Popular Science 

 Review of July last, giving an account of a species of "Ceratodus" 

 discovered in the rivers of Queensland. These Ceratodont fish 

 have hitherto only been known to us by a few scattered teeth 

 preserved in the Trias and Lias ; and it is most interesting to 

 Geologists to find this Old-World type stiU preserved in these 

 mud-fishes of Australia^a land which appears, in its Cestracionts, 

 Trigonise, and Marsupials, to represent a condition of life which 

 passed away with the Secondary period, to which this newly- 

 discovered Ceratodus is a fresh and striking addition. 



