THE ANNUAL MEETING 
of the Club was held on Tuesday the 19th of April, 1881, at the 
Spread Eagle Hotel, Gloucester, when the Presrtpenr read his 
annual address ; after which the officers for the ensuing year 
were chosen, when you again did me the honor to elect me 
for your President, with Mr. T. B. Lu. Baxer, Dr. Wricur, 
F.R.S., and Mr. Lucy, F.G.S., as Vice-Presidents, and Dr. 
Paine, M,D., as Hon. Secretary. Dr. Parnes, finding his leisure 
increasingly taken up with professional work, asked for the 
assistance of a Treasurer to relieve him of an onerous portion 
of his duties; on the motion, therefore, of Dr. Wrieunt, 
seconded by Mr. Dorrineron, Mr. Wircuett, who had kindly 
intimated his willingness to accept the office, was duly elected 
Treasurer. 
Mr. Grorce Maw, F.G.S., drew the attention of the Club 
to a curious fact which he had recently observed, which is 
this: That the tail of a dead vertebrate has, on the setting in 
of rigor mortis, a distinct tendency to be deflected towards the 
left side. He had first observed this in the case of dead mice 
caught in mouse-traps, and had noticed the same peculiarity in 
the carcases of sheep. In 97 per cent. of those noted, the tail 
was distinctly deflected to the left. Mr. Maw exhibited two 
series of flowers of Narcissi of the daffodil type: one of the 
several British forms of the “ Ajaz’’ group, allied to “ Pseudo- 
Narcissus,” including the Tenby form of “ N. lobularis,” and 
another form from the neighbourhood of Swansea, inter- 
mediate between it and the common form. The other group 
showed five or six examples of the Spanish “corbularis ” 
collected by Mr. Maw from the Sierra di Guadarama in the 
neighbourhood of the Escorial in Spain, showing an insensibly 
graduated series in size and colour, down to the minute form 
of “ N. nivalis,’’ between which no clear line of definition can 
be drawn. Mr. Maw then exhibited a selection of his original 
drawings for a monograph of the genus “ Crocus,” shortly to 
be published, which will comprise upwards of 70 species from 
all parts of the world. The exquisite delicacy and beauty of 
