Annual Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Olub, read at 
Gloucester, April the 30th, 1891, by the President, 
Mr W. C. Lucy, F.G.S. 
The Annual Meeting was held at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, 
on the 29th April, 1890, when the President, Vice-Presidents, 
and Officers of the Club were re-elected. 
Mr Jones, the Hon. Treasurer, presented the accounts, 
shewing a balance in favour of the Club of £57 2s. 10d., which 
were passed and ordered to be printed. 
The following Field Meetings for the year were arranged :— 
Lydbrook and Symond’s Yat ... 27th May 
May Hill ... Jy: ch ... 24th June 
Eastnor and neighbourhood ... 29th July 
Swindon and Avebury .. ... 26th August 
The members adjourned to the Lecture Room of the 
School of Science and Art, where the President after reading 
his annual address, made a departure from the usual practice 
of his predecessors by giving a paper on “A slight History of 
Flint Implements, with especial reference to our own and 
adjacent areas,” and which is printed in the last number of 
the Proceedings. 
The members dined at the Bell Hotel. 
Alas! how time is thinning our ranks! It is again my 
painful duty to record the death of another old and valued 
member. Dr. William Henry Paine, after a long illness, died 
on the 13th June last, at the age of 66, and was buried on the 
18th, at the Stroud Cemetery. He became a member in 1860, 
succeeded me on my retirement as Hon. Secretary in 1866, 
and resigned this office in 1888, when he was elected a Vice- 
President. The Hon. Secretary of a Field Club requires 
- courtesy, much tact, and judgment, all of which he possessed 
in an eminent degree. From a natural diffidence of manner, 
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