VOL. XV.(1) THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS ii 
of Rock-specimens from the Superficial Deposits; to Mrs 
Price, of Tibberton Court, for defraying the cost of a 
block of a photograph of an Anticline in the Carboniferous 
Limestone to illustrate the Club’s Proceedings; to Mr St 
Clair Baddeley for his admirable addresses at the Painswick 
field-meeting: and to Mr Luker for his interesting paper 
on Faringdon Church, read at the Faringdon field-meeting. 
I have the pleasure of recording the following contribu- 
tions to knowledge made by members of the Club outside 
our own Proceedings. Mr Buckman has contributed two 
papers to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 
dealing with “The Toarcian of Bredon Hill,” and “ Two 
Toarcian Ammonites.” To the same periodical, Mr 
Richardson has contributed a like number of communica- 
tions, entitled respectively “The Rhatic and Lower Lias 
of Sedbury Cliff, near Chepstow,” and “On a Section at 
Cowley, near Cheltenham, and its Bearing upon the Inter- 
pretation of the Bajocian Denudation.” He has also 
published a “ Note on a Section of Great Oolite Beds at 
Condicote, near Stow-on-the-Wold,” in the Geological 
Magazine. Mr T. S. Ellis has written on “ River Curves 
round Alluvial Plains,” in the same magazine. Mr John 
Sawyer has:published an excellent book on “ Cheltenham 
Parish Church: its Architecture and its History,” illus- 
trated with many plates; while Mr C. Upton has con- 
tributed another article to the second edition of the Officzal 
Guide to the Stroud Valley. Mr C. A. Witchell has 
published a most interesting book entitled “ Nature’s 
Story of the Year,” in which acute observation is com- 
bined with picturesque description. 
PART JI.—PRECAMBRIAN VOLCANOES. 
In my last annual address, I drew your attention to a 
comparatively recent phase of the physical history of the 
Lower Severn valley, and attempted to demonstrate that its 
