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_ Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, read by the 
President, Sir Wiiu1am V. Guisz, Bart, F.L.S., F.G.S., at 
Gloucester, on Wednesday, 22nd April, 1885. 
GENTLEMEN ,— 
The return of Spring calls us together again to take a 
review of the past, and to arrange our plans for the future. 
I am glad on the present occasion, as heretofore, to congratulate 
the Club on the work accomplished—on the financial condition 
and general prosperity of the Society. The numbers of the 
Club are well maintained, but death has been busy amongst us, 
and has removed two of our original members, whose names 
have been associated with our Transactions from the date of 
our formation—I allude to the late Professor Buckman and 
Dr Wricut. Professor Buckman acted as secretary to the Club 
under the Presidency of Mr Barwick Baker. On reference to 
the Club records I find that James Buckman was elected a 
member of the Club on the 18th August, 1846. For many 
years he was a frequent contributor to the Transactions of the 
Club. He ceased to be Secretary in 1859, and shortly after- 
wards he retired into Dorsetshire, where he aided in the 
formation of the Dorsetshire Natural History Society, of which 
_he continued to be Secretary until his death, which occurred 
in November last. For many years he had ceased to attend 
our meetings or to contribute to our Transactions, which caused 
his loss to be less felt than it would have been at an earlier 
pe iod of his career. Not so, however, of his great colleague, 
Dr Wrieur, whose loss to the Club may be said to be irreparable. 
Open a volume of our Transactions where you will and you 
will find records of the Doctor’s keen intelligence, acute powers 
observation, clearness of intellect, and perspicuity of expres- 
: The records of the Club bear evidence of the Doctor’s 
