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I take this opportunity of drawing the attention of members 

 to a beautifully executed volume on " The Old Crosses of 

 Gloucestershire," from the pen of one of the oldest members of 

 the Club — Dr. Poolet, of Weston-super-Mare. Some portions 

 of the work have already appeared in our Transactions. The 

 whole forms an interesting record of a class of memorials which 

 time and other destroying agents are rapidly obliterating. 

 Though a labour of love, it has been to our colleague a cause of 

 considerable outlay, which will not be more than covered by the 

 sale of the whole edition. I think I am justified, therefore, in 

 calling upon the members of the Club — the antiquarians in 

 particular — to subscribe for copies. 



Our numbers are fuUy maintained, and judging from the hst 

 of those who have signified their desire to join us as vacancies 

 arise, there is no reason to expect any falling off in that respect. 

 During the past year twelve vacancies have occurred, through 

 death or retirement, and ten new members have been elected. 

 One only has been removed from amongst us by death ; but in 

 him not only do we mourn the loss of one of the original 

 founders of our Society, but, in common with the whole scientific 

 world, we lament the departure of one of the veterans of science, 

 whose name wiU ever be associated, on the roll of fame, with 

 that bright galaxy of names which has done honour to our 

 Universities, and has made the first half of the present century 

 so pre-eminent in the march of intellectual progress and 

 development. 



Dr. Giles Bridle Daubeney, F.E.S., was a Gloucestershire 

 man. He was the younger son of the Rev. James Daubeney, 

 rector of Stratton, in this county. He was born in 1795, and 

 graduated B.A. at Oxford in 1814, at the age of 18. In 1818 

 he undertook his first joiu-ney of exploration in the volcanic 

 district of Auvergne ; and in 1822 was appointed Professor of 

 Chemistry at Oxford, having then been recently elected a 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Society, at the early age of 27. In 1834 

 he was appointed Professor of Botany at Oxford, to which the 

 Professorship of Rural Economy was added in 1840. In 1856 he 

 occupied, at Cheltenham, the distinguished position of President 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



