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Annual Address to the Members of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field 

 Club, read at Gloucest&r on Thursday, \Wh March, 1874, by 

 the President, Sir W. Y. Guise, Bart., F.L.S., T.G.S. 



Gentlemen, — 



In accordance with our annual custom I have the pleasure of 

 assembling you to-day at the commencement of a new season, 

 and of submitting to you a short statement of om' position and 

 prospects, together with a brief resume of the work done dui'ing 

 the past season. 



I am glad to have it in my power to assure you of the 

 continued px'osperity of our Club, and that there is no diminution 

 of interest in those pursuits for the cultivation and advance- 

 ment of which we are associated. 



The Club consists at present of a President, three Vice- 

 Presidents, and an Honorary Secretary ; eight Honorary 

 Members, the Presidents and Secretaries of nine Field Clubs, 

 and ninety-one ordinary Members. During the past year we 

 have, in accordance with a resolution passed at a former 

 Meeting, removed the names of four members, for non-payment 

 of subscriptions, and two have retired. In a financial point of 

 view our position is good ; for which we are in a great measm-e 

 indebted to the exertions of our indefatigable Secretary. We 

 commenced the year vnth a debt of £71 12s. 5d., which is now 

 cleared off. This has been effected by keeping down the 

 expenses as much as possible, and by the collection of arrears. 

 This latter process has yielded no less than £108. Some £20 

 of arrears yet remains to be collected, which will leave us with 



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