61. 

 THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CLUB 



was held at the Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham, on Tnesday, 2nd 

 April, 1872, on which occasion you were so hind as to testify 

 jQ-ax. continued confidence in me by again electing me to the 

 honourable office of President. Dr. Weight and Mr. Lucy 

 were again chosen Yice-Presidents, and Dr. Paine, Hon. 

 Secretary. 



The Secretary produced his financial statement, which was 

 received and adopted. He stated that some time since the 

 Bath Naturalists' Club had called the attention of the Cotteswold 

 Club to the dilapidated condition of the Frocester Hill Tumulus, 

 which was rapidly falling into decay, a part of the top having 

 fallen in, and the chambers being quite blocked up with rubbish, 

 so that access to it had become impossible. Application was 

 made on behalf of the Club to Col. Kingscote, the owner of 

 the property, and with his permission, most kindly given, the 

 requisite repairs were undertaken, the covering stones replaced, 

 the chambers cleared out, and the entrance repaired; so that 

 now this interesting relic of pre-historic times is again acces- 

 sible, and may long remain in good preservation. 



Mr. Waltek Lawrence exliibited a curious latten or copj)er 

 bowl, engraved in compartments with rude figures illustrative 

 of the story of Orpheus and Euridiee, with explanatory Latin 

 inscriptions. This singular vessel was found in sinking the 

 abutments of the Haw Bridge over the Severn, in 1824, and has 

 been described in the ArcJueologia. From the style and costume, 

 it would seem to be Anglo-Saxon of the 10th or 11th century. 



The party visited the Museum of the Proprietary College, 

 which, though but recently established, contains much of real 

 value and interest, and offers an excellent nucleus for further 

 amplification. 



Dinner was served at the Queen's Hotel, to which about forty 

 sat down. After dinner, Mr. Etheeidge, F.E.S., communicated 

 to the Club some of the results arrived at by the labours of the 

 Eoyal Commission appointed to examine into and report upon 

 the Coal and Coal-fields of Great Britain and Ireland — their 



