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forward and submitted to the meeting; and if adopted, I hope 
it may lead men of learning and research—and we have many 
-such amongst us—to supply the deficiency now complained of. 
With these prefatory remarks, I will proceed to read my 
report of our meetings during the past season. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING 
of the Club was held at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, on Tuesday, 
the 10th of April, 1877, when the President read his Address, 
and the usual business, including the election of officers and 
the fixture of meetings for the ensuing year, was transacted, 
on which occasion you honoured me by a renewed token of 
your confidence in choosing me for your President, with 
Dr. Wrieut and Mr. Lucy as Vice-Presidents, and Dr. Parnes 
as Honorary Secretary. 
The Club then adjourned to the School of Art, to hear 
Mr. Lucy’s paper on “The Extension of the Boulder Clay and 
Drift over the Cotteswold Range.” 
Mr. Lucy referred to a former paper, read before the Club in 
1869, in which he stated that he had not then found “‘ Northern 
Drift” pebbles at a higher elevation than 750 feet, confirming 
the observations made by Professor Harn when surveying the 
district. Mr. Lucy also mentioned that he was not aware of 
the presence of “boulder clay,” unless some clay which had 
been found in the partings of a quarry at Woodchester, with a 
few pebbles embedded in it, should prove to be it. The special 
object of his paper seemed to be the discovery of the same 
highly silicified clay in various parts of the Cotteswolds, 
including the highest point of Cleeve Cloud. This clay he had 
had analysed by Prof. Cuurcu and Mr. Emuprey, and the result, 
as will be seen by the following table, showed so marked a 
resemblance in the percentage of silica as to leave no doubt 
that it was all derived from the same source; and from the 
“Northern Drift” pebbles being found with it, Mr. Lucy classed 
it as belonging to the “boulder clay” period, indicating that 
the whole of the Cotteswold range was submerged during 
that time. Mr; Lucy also traced the same clay in a gravel pit 
