Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, delivered at 
Gloucester, on the 24th April, 1883, by the President, Sir 
Wim Vernon Guise, Bart., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
GENTLEMEN, — 
In compliance with custom, I will proceed to give a 
summary of our proceedings at the different Meetings of the 
Club during the past season; but before doing so I will briefly 
allude to the condition and prospects of the Club, which, I 
am glad to say, are in all respects satisfactory. Our numbers 
are well maintained, and I am glad to say that we have no 
deaths to register amongst our Members. The Papers read at 
our Winter Meetings are of a character to give value to our 
“Transactions.” Of these I would more especially refer to 
the Paper by Mr Werruerep, on “The Drybrook Beds,” which 
is of great value to local Geology. 
Our Hon. Treasurer, Mr Wircuetz, has been indefatigable 
in his exertions to collect arrears of subscriptions, which, I 
regret to say, are in some instances very large. It is strange 
that gentlemen who receive the published “Transactions” of 
the Society should fail to pay their annual subscriptions for 
many years in succession. Our subscriptions (only 15s. a year) 
are not heavy, and full value is received in the annual publi- 
cations of the Society. This deficit must not continue, and 
the Treasurer, acting under my instructions, will take such 
steps as are necessary to secure payment. The financial 
condition of the Club is, on the whole, favorable. The balance 
in hand last year was £30 16s. 1ld., and this year it is 
£49 7s. 5d. 
I will now proceed to the report of our proceedings at the 
different Field and Winter Meetings of the Club. 
