Annual Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, read at 
Gloucester, April the 30th, 1892, by the President, 
Mr W. C. Lucy, F.G.S. 
On Thursday, April 30th, 1891, the Annual Meeting took 
place at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester ; and after passing the Hon. 
Treasurer’s Accounts, shewing a credit balance of £57 3s. 8d., 
the retiring Officers of the Club were re-elected. 
_ The Field Meetings for the year were fixed as follows :— 
Woolhope... re May 21st 
Silchester... oe sa weds June 23rd 
Midland and South Western 
Extension Railway (Cirencester) July 28th 
Newland and St. Briavels wae September 17th 
A large party of the Members afterwards dined at the 
Bell Hotel. 
WOOLHOPE MEETING 
This Meeting was held on the 22nd of May—a day after 
the date fixed at the Annual Meeting. 
The weather in the morning was most unfavorable, but a 
small party—not deterred by the elements—left the Gloucester 
Station for Hereford, where they were met by Mr H. C. Moore, 
the Hon. Secretary of the Woolhope Club, and Mr G. H. Piper, 
of Ledbury, who were the guides for the day. 
Carriages were taken, and the first place visited was 
Bartestree. In a quarry of Old Red Sandstone there, is a 
considerable upthrust of Trap Rock “ Diorite,” and where it is 
in contact with the Old Red beds they are altered so much by 
heat, as to make them friable. The Trap Rock seems to have 
escaped the observation of the Geological Survey, as it is not 
marked in the map of the district. 
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