and a map of the district treated of, to show that if we would 

 not starve our work we must consent to a higher annual sub- 

 scription than 10s. At our Annual Meeting last year, I gave 

 notice of my intention to move a resolution to the effect that 

 our annual subscription be increased from 10s. to 15s., which 

 will I hope be accepted and confirmed by a vote at the present 

 meeting. 



I must not conclude these prefatory remarks without recording 

 the loss which we have incurred by the death, within the past 

 year, of one of the original founders of the Cotteswold Club, Dr. 

 Samuel P. Wooodward, of the British Museum. In 1845 he 

 was appointed Professor of Botany and Geology in the Royal 

 Agriciiltural College at Cii'encester, in which capacity he first 

 joined our ranks, and by his amiability and geniality of dis- 

 position won the esteem and regard of all who were brought 

 within the circle of his acquaintance. In 1848 he removed to 

 the MetropoHs, having been appointed first-class assistant in 

 the department of Geology and Mineralogy in the British 

 Museum. Subsequently he became Examiner to the Council of 

 Military Education, Examiner in Geology to the University of 

 London, and Member of the Council of the Geological Society. 

 The University of Gottingen had recently conferred upon him 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in consideration of his 

 eminent scientific services. He was the author of a popular 

 work on Conchology, known by the title of "A Manual of Recent 

 and Fossil SheUs," which is recognised as one of the best text- 

 books in that department of science. He was a large contributor 

 to various scientific and literary periodicals; and the Reports of the 

 British Association from 1841 to 1856 contain many valuable 

 papers from his pen. Though never a contributor to the published 

 papers of the Cotteswold Club, he was from the first among its 

 warmest friends and supporters. His great stores of knowledge, 

 and practical acquaintance with all branches of Natural Science, 

 caused his aid to be frequently sought by enquirers, to whom it 

 was always ungrudgingly given, and never with heartier readi- 

 ness than when sought by young enquirers, especially of the 

 Cotteswold Club. During many of the latter years of his life 

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