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Annual Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Cluh. Read 

 by the President, Sir W. V. Guise, Bart., F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 March 25th, 1868. 



Gentlemen, — 



In presenting my Annual Report to tlie members of the 

 Cotteswold Field Club, I rejoice in again having it in my power 

 to congratulate them upon the prosperity of their Society, which 

 in all respects continues to maintain the position by universal 

 assent accorded to it, as amongst the most distinguished of 

 those local Associations which have done so much of late years 

 to disseminate and foster amongst us a love of natural science. 



I regret that our Secretary, Dr. Paine, to whom we owe so 

 much for his unremitting exertions in our service, is prevented 

 by illness from being present with us to-day ; and from the 

 same cause the auditing of the accounts has been unavoidably 

 postponed. I am able, however, to assure you, upon his 

 authority, that our financial condition is satisfactory. The 

 annual volume of Transactions will shortly be in the hands of 

 members, when I think it will be found to be in no degree 

 inferior in interest to any of our previous issues. 



I must not pass over without notice the splendid contribution 

 to our volume for 1866, by our esteemed colleague, Dr. Wright, 

 on *' Coral Reefs Present and Past," which gave value and 

 importance to our last year's volume, in other respects somewhat 

 more meagre than usual. The expense incurred in the production 

 of that volume was the reason why the " Ammonites " were not 

 proceeded with. Since then one more plate has been done, and 

 Dr. Weight proposes to complete the corresponding portion of 

 text for the next part, if well enough to do so. 

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