he was a pitiable sufferer from acute chronic asthma, which 

 wasted him to a shadow, and finally caused his death, by the 

 bursting of a blood-vessel. 



I will now record the proceedings of the Club at its different 

 meetings dining the past season. 



Wednesday, 29th March, 1865. The amiual meeting of the 

 Club was held at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, when Mr. Ltjct, to 

 the great regret of the Club, announced his inability any longer 

 to continue the aid of his valuable services as Secretary; and 

 Dr. Paine, of Stroud, having intimated his willingness to per- 

 form the duties of the ofiice, he was unanimously chosen to fill 

 the vacant post. The President read his address; after which he 

 vacated the chair, and on the motion of the Eev. W. S. Symonds, 

 was re-elected to the office. The President then read a transla- 

 tion of the ofl&cial report to the Belgian Government, by Mons. 

 Edotjard Dupont, of a scientific examination of certain ossiferous 

 caves on the river Lesse, in the province of Namur, made during 

 the year 1864, which have }delded a mass of important evidence 

 on the antiquity of man in those regions, through the discovery 

 of a vast quantity of bones of our species, associated vdth those 

 of the reindeer, chamois, elk, bear, bison, &c., under conditions 

 which show that they had been subjected to the action of a vast 

 cataclysm of waters. The vast abundance of bones of the 

 reindeer point to cHmatal conditions very different to those 

 now prevailing, and to an antiquity commensurate with the 

 altered geographical and terrestrial relations which the surface 

 of Northern Europe then, in all probability, bore to that which 

 it exhibits at the present day. The only implements found with 

 these "reindeer men" were of flint of the rudest type; no trace 

 of metal of any kind having been found associated with these 

 remains. 



The picture drawn by Mons. Dtjpont, of Belgium as it existed 

 in those remote ages, is worth transci-ibing, and claims attention 

 on the ground that it is not the wild vision of an enthusiast, but 

 the calm and studied deduction of a cool-headed philosopher, 

 drawn from an accumulation of facts most carefully observed, 

 and presenting such a remarkable association of phenomena as 



