Address to the Ootteswold Naturalists’ Club, by the President, Str 
W. V. Guisr, Barr., read on Tuesday, 10th May, 1887. 
GentLtemen,—After having presided over the destinies of 
your Club for a period of twenty-eight years, I am warned by 
growing infirmities that the time has come for me to lay down 
what has been to me a source of unvarying pleasure. When I 
look back upon the years that have passed, I do so with pride 
and pleasure, and [ call to mind the noble band of workers who 
have enabled me to carry the Club to its present renown and 
high character among similar bodies. The names occur to 
me of Etheridge, Wright, Symonds, Jones, Moore, Lucy, 
Witchell, and many others, whose pens have been busy in 
our service, some of whom are still left, while others have been 
removed from among us. I received the Club from Barwick 
Baker, our first President, but lately removed from us by 
death, and now my failing powers remind me that I too must 
lay down the reins which my hands can no longer sustain; 
but I feel that in doing so I resign them into hands fully 
capable of all the duties connected therewith. I indulge a 
hope that I may yet participate in your evening meetings ; but 
to share in your excursions is a physical impossibility. In 
bidding you farewell I congratulate myself and you upon the 
favorable condition of the Club, the numbers of which are fully 
maintained, and the papers of the usual average interest and 
importance. 
In conclusion, in bidding you adieu, let me add my fervent 
hope for the future success of the Cotteswold Club. 
The First Freup Mesrrine for the season was held on 
Tuesday, 25th of May. The march of the Club lay over ground 
sections of which are included in the paper by Mr Lucy, on the 
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