earnest whereof I may refer with satisfaction to the elaborate 

 and important paper with which we are about to commence 

 this session — by our colleague, Mr. Lttct, on the "Gravels of 

 the Yalleys of the Severn, Avon, and Evenlode" — a paper which 

 I will venture to predict will form a starting point and basis for 

 all future generalisation on the quaternary Gravels, so careful, 

 so elaborate and so extensive are the observations upon which 

 it is founded. 



The following were the appointed dates and places of meeting 

 of the Club for the past season : 



Wednesday, May 27th, Nailsworth and Avening. 

 Tuesday, June 23rd, Sharpness. 

 Wednesday, July 22nd, Wotton-under-Edge. 

 Wednesday, Aug. 12th, Bredon. 



It will be observed that we departed last year fi-om our 

 custom, to which I have always attached much importance, 

 of holding one of our meetings outside the boundary of our 

 county ; but the experience of former years had forced upon us 

 the conclusion, that members were indisposed to support these 

 distant excursions. They were therefore of necessity abandoned. 

 This year, however, we have received an invitation so hospitable 

 and attractive that already a large nximber of names have been 

 sent in reply to the notice which I caused to be circulated a 

 few weeks since. This invitation comes from Mr. Maw, of 

 Benthall Edge, and is so comprehensive in its terms, and so 

 unbounded in its offers of hospitality, that it cannot be doubted 

 that a very large body of our members will come together in 

 the beginning of June, to partake of the hospitality of Mr. Maw, 

 and, under his able guidance, to explore the highly iateresting 

 district by which his residence is surrounded. 



I now pass to the records of our proceedings at the different 

 meetings of the Club held during the last year. 



The Annual Meeting took place at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, 

 on Wednesday, 25th March, when the President's Address was 

 read. Dr. Paine, the Secretary, being — to the regret of all — 

 unavoidably absent, through illness, his place was temporarily 



