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with Mr Chamberlain’s ‘“‘ Things Japanese.” Mr Vincent 
A. Smith has followed up his “Ancient History of India,” 
with “ A Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum at 
Calcutta,” which contains an extraordinary amount of 
information. 
It has been customary on these occasions to refer 
at some length to the excursions made by the Club during 
the year, but the change made last year, in introducing into 
our published Proceedings detailed notices of the excur- 
sions, seems to me to have done away with the necessity 
which previously existed for such remarks. The subjects 
of interest examined on these outings, the addresses 
delivered regarding them, and the discussions which spring 
from them, now form one continuous narrative, and the 
consequent occasion for immediate record of such _pro- 
ceedings has, thanks to the pains taken by our Hon. 
Secretary, preserved to us for reference in the future many 
valuable data which formerly were in danger of obtaining 
no permanent record. 
But there are two excursions which seem to me to 
deserve special mention—(1) that to Wainlode Cliff on the 
7th July, on account of its having taken place on the 
sixtieth anniversary of the foundation of this Club; and 
(2) that to Bourton-on-the-Water and Burford, when the 
old custom of devoting two days to one of the outings 
of the year was revived under most favourable conditions. 
Alas, that we can never see Burford again under the same 
cicerone! No place could have found a more devoted 
lover, or more competent historian, and no Club a more 
genial guide than Burford possessed, and we met, in the 
person of Dr Cheatle, whose death we all deplore. The 
courteous hospitality of Canon Broome-Witts, at Upper 
Slaughter, and the lecture by his brother, Mr G. B. Witts, 
on the probable history of the mound near the Church, 
added to the charm of the excursion, which had been 
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