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Address to the Cottcsivold Naturalists^ Field Cluh by the President 

 Sir W. Y. Guise, Bart., F.L.S., F.G.S., read February 23rd, 



1870. 



In presenting to the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club my 

 Report for the year 1869, I have to congratulate the members 

 on the continued prosperity and activity of the Club. Our 

 fasciculus of Transactions for the past season will shortly be 

 in the hands of members, and wiU be received with the greatest 

 satisfaction ; comprising as it does two communications of 

 unusual interest and importance, viz. : — the carefully elaborate 

 paper of Mr. Lucy on the Drifts of the Severn, Avon, and 

 Evenlode Yalleys, a work upon which he has been occupied 

 nearly four years, and which combines a larger amount of 

 information on the question of local Gravels, Drifts, and 

 Erratics, than has ever been systematically accumulated here- 

 tofore ; and a paper by Dr. Weight on the Correlation of the 

 Inferior Lias or Hettangian beds of the Cote d'Or (France,) 

 with those of Gloucestershire and the adjoining districts. It will 

 readily be understood that considerable expense has necessarily 

 been incurred in the Map and Sections to Mr. Lucy's paper; 

 but I felt that I was only acting in accordance with your wishes 

 in sanctioning the necessary oiitlay upon a work on which the 

 author has expended so much time and labour, and which is 

 calculated to reflect so much credit on the Cotteswold Club. 



In respect of our Field Meetings during the past season, I 

 am glad to report that they have been, on all occasions, well 

 attended, and have proved very agreeable gatherings. Espe- 

 cially must I refer in terms of admiration and gratitude to the 

 delightful week spent by the Club with Mr. George Maw, at 



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