ANNUAL ADDRESS 



TO THE 



COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



MAY 1 6th, 1898, 



BY 



M. W. COLCHESTER-WEMYSS, PRESIDENT. 



During the year the Club has sustained a severe loss 

 by the death of its late Honorary Secretary, the Rev. E. 

 Cornford. With the exception of two years spent in 

 South Africa, when he was first ordained, his whole career 

 was passed in Gloucestershire, until the last few months 

 of his life, when he accepted the living of Shipton Bellinger, 

 near Andover, where he died on New Year's day last. A 

 resident for many years in Cheltenham, he took an active 

 part in public life, and his leisure hours were devoted to 

 natural science, of which he was an ardent student, and a 

 keen observer. On the death of Professor Harker he was 

 appointed Honorary Secretary of our Club, and on resign- 

 ing that office he was elected a Vice-President. Since 

 his death, Mrs Cornford has presented the Club with his 

 collection of fossils, the result of the devotion of many 

 years to the study of geology. This gift will be highly 

 appreciated ; it will form a fitting and lasting memorial of 

 a most regular attendant at the Club xMeetings, who will 

 be greatly missed by the members, to nearly all of whom 

 he was intimatelv known. 



