Address to the Members of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club : 
read at Gloucester by the President, Srr W. V. Guise, Barr., 
F.L.S., F.G.S., on Tuesday the 18th of April, 1882. 
GENTLEMEN, 
At this the opening of another season let me begin by offering 
my warm congratulations on the prosperous condition of the 
Club, and by the expression of a hope equally warm, that in the 
season now commencing we may enter with renewed energy on 
those scientific pursuits and investigations which constitute our 
raison d’ étre; which have afforded us so much happiness in 
times past, and by which we have secured no small share of that 
scientific reputation which constitutes the special honour and 
glory to be sought by all such associations as ours. 
Since our last Field Meeting, this Club, in common with 
geologic science in general, has suffered a heavy loss in the 
death of our old and valued associate, Coartes Moors, F.G.S., 
of Bath. Though during the latter years of his life a sufferer 
from a chronic bronchial affection, which at length terminated 
his existence, he was to.the last an indefatigable worker. His 
most important discovery, for which he received the public 
acknowledgments of Sir Roperick Murcutson, on the occasion 
of the meeting of the British Association at Bath, was that of 
the beds named “ Rheetic,”’ which had previously been confused 
with the upper beds of the “ Keuper.” Another most interest- 
ing discovery made by Mours was that of the infilling from the 
“ Keuper” sea of fissures in the “Carboniferous Limestone,” 
near Frome, of which-—with his untiring industry—he passed 
whole cartloads under his microscope, and extracted thence 
many thousands of minute teeth, including those of the oldest 
known of all the mammals, the little “ Microlestes antiquus.” 
