ANNUAL ADDRESS 
TO THE 
COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB, 
BY 
C. CALLAWAY, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., President. 
(Read at Gloucester, April 19th, 1904) 
PART I.—FORMAL RECORD. 
During the past year eight new members have been 
elected, and we have lost five—three by resignation and 
two by death. Major A. K. Abbott died in March of the 
present year, and Dr W. D. Blyth, who joined in Sep- 
tember, 1903, did not long survive his election. We 
have also to deplore the loss of a distinguished honorary 
member, Mr Robert Etheridge, who passed away in 
December last, at the ripe age of 84 years. 
Robert Etheridge, though not a native of the county, 
was in the earlier part of his career closely connected with 
its scientific institutions. He served for seven years as 
Curator to the Museum of the Bristol Philosophical 
Society, and he was for over forty years an active member 
of this Club. In 1856, when on a visit to Lord Ducie, he 
was introduced to Sir Roderick Murchison, then Director- 
General of the Geological Survey, by whose influence he 
was appointed to the Survey as Assistant-Palzontologist, 
under J. W. Salter, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 
After 24 years’ service in this department, he was trans- 
ferred to the British Museum of Natural History, and held 
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