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of labour would be saved. At all events the Club must practice 
economy, as the balance in hand is steadily diminishing. 
With these preliminary remarks, I will proceed to read a 
record of the proceedings of the Club during the past season. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CLUB 
was held at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, on Wednesday, the 
22nd of April, 1885, when the President read his Address, and 
the usual business, including the election of officers, was 
proceeded with,‘and resulted in the re-election of all to the 
offices which they had previously held. 
The members then adjourned to the Lecture Theatre of the 
School of Science, where a paper was read by R. Erneriper, 
F.R.S., upon “The occurrence of a new Fossil Annelide, obtained 
from the Stonesfield Slate of Eyford, on the Cotteswolds, upon 
the occasion of a meeting of the Club at that locality in the 
month of August, 1883.” 
Besides the special reference to and description of this 
unique form, Mr ErueripeE entered at some length into the 
general structure of the two chief divisions of the Annelida, 
namely, the Errantia and the Tubicola, and their history 
through time. The specimen obtained belongs to the first- 
named section, or Hrrantia, and is believed to be the first well- 
defined Nereid ever obtained from the Jurassic rocks in Britain 
or on the Continent; hence the interest attaching to the new 
fossil. Mr Erurripesr provisionally names this Annelide Pachy- 
nereis corrugatus. Through all paleozoic time members or 
genera of the group Hrrantia played an important part in 
the history and structure of the slates and sandstones of the 
Cambrian, Silurian, and Carboniferous rocks, being everywhere 
present in the shallow argillaceous and sandy deposits where 
estuarine conditions prevailed and favored their development. 
It would almost appear that these Annelides were the dominant 
forms of life during the early history of the earth, so prolific 
are they in certain strata, especially of the older rocks. Our 
Forest Marble, Stonesfield Slate, and other estuarine accumu- 
lations, exhibit everywhere the trails, casts, and burrows of 
