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Address to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, read at the 
Annual Meeting, held at Gloucester, on the 3rd April, 1879, by 
the President, Sir W. V. Guisz, Bart., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
GENTLEMEN,— 
In presenting my Annual Report, I have again the pleasure 
of congratulating members upon the continued prosperity of 
the Club. The evening meetings which were held during the 
winter, in accordance with a resolution come to at our Annual 
Meeting last year, have proved a great success, and have been 
the means of supplying valuable contributions to our published 
“Transactions.” 
In the matter of finance I am likewise enabled to report — 
most favourably ; our Treasurer’s account showing a very 
considerable balance in our favour. 
The number of our members has been somewhat lessened 
by death and retirement, but the deficiency will doubtless soon 
be restored by fresh accessions from without. 
Amongst those of whom death has deprived us we have to 
lament Jonn Garuic Batt, late Coroner for the County, and 
Sepastran Srewart Dickenson, late Chairman of Quarter 
Sessions,—both valuable public officers and early members of 
the Cotteswold Club; but a more than common loss has befallen 
us in the decease of Grorcge FREepERIcK Puayne, one of our 
oldest and most valued members, who expired suddenly, at 
Stuttgart, on the 11th of last month, and to whose memory 
more than a passing notice is due. 
A memoir of our late lamented friend which appeared in 
the Stroud Journal of March 22nd has supplied me with some 
particulars of his scientific life and works, of which I have 
availed myself in the following biographical sketch :— 
“To those who were so fortunate as to be on terms of intimacy with 
him he was known as a man of varied accomplishments and refined intelli- 
gence, and as a warm-hearted friend. By them his death will be deeply 
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