Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, by the 
President, Lizur.-CononeL Str Witiiam Vv. Guisr, Bart., 
F.L.S., F.G.S. Read at Gloucester, April 19th, 1881. 
GENTLEMEN, 
The return of Spring, after a Winter of unusual duration 
and severity, summons anew the Cotteswold Field Club to those 
annual rambles which, for thirty-five years, have contributed 
so largely to the enjoyment and instruction of its members. 
Since we last met the Club has to lament the loss, by death, 
of Mr. Jonun Jones, one of its earliest members, and one who, 
by the valuable papers he contributed to our ‘‘ Transactions,” 
has made a mark in our annals, with which his name will 
always be honorably associated. 
_ Jones was in many ways a remarkable man. He came 
of a good old yeoman family, settled at Brockworth, near 
Gloucester, where his father carried on business as a tanner. 
At 12 years of age Joun Jones ran away to sea. He had 
previously been at a school at the Blackfriars, in Gloucester, 
kept by a Mr. Sreruens, where he numbered among his 
associates the present Joun Powett, Q.C., and formerly M.P. 
for Gloucester. He was for some years at sea, knocking 
about in the Mediterranean, where he picked up a considerable 
acquaintance with the mercantile languages of that region. 
He possessed an extraordinary capacity for acquiring language, 
in the exercise of which he took great delight; and after his 
return from sea he devoted much time to the study of modern 
languages, in many of which he acquired great proficiency. 
With this love of language he combined an equally ardent one 
for the pursuit of natural science in all its branches, but more 
especially of geology, into which he brought to bear all the 
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