6 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1907 
in their occasional disappearance, their intercellular circu- 
lation appears to offer a secret which has not yet been 
altogether solved. 
Again, in Zoology, the Crustaceans and Molluscs of 
our county still await a completer investigation than has 
hitherto been given to them; and for those who affect 
Ornithology there is possibly already a subject of study in 
the effect of the Wild Birds Protection Act on our summer 
and winter visitants. 
To advance to other fields, for those who live in the 
neighbourhood of the Severn, a systematic study of the 
conditions which lead to the formation of the Bore in that 
river offers what I believe will prove to them a specially 
fascinating pursuit. Nor need they fear that a scientific 
training is needed to adapt them to undertake such a work, 
for the account given by Sir G. H. Darwin in his “ Tides,” 
of similar work prosecuted in the Lake of Geneva, shows 
what good results can be obtained even without such 
a training, and what simple instruments have sufficed to 
advance considerably the knowledge of such matters. 
Lastly, in Archzology, is it too much to hope that the 
scattered papers which have appeared from time to time 
in our journals and elsewhere, on places such as the town 
in which we meet, may be collected and added to by some 
of our Members, and that the work which has been done 
by Mr Hyett in showing the place in history which has 
been occupied by Gloucester, may be supplemented by 
a work such as at least one of our number is fully com- 
petent to produce ? 
And now perhaps it will be asked what cause is there 
for the enumeration of these different /acwnez in the know- 
ledge of our county. Partly, I must confess it is because 
for my own part I am anxious to obtain the fruit of other 
men’s knowledge. But also it is because our Council are 
anxious to interest all Members of the Club more deeply 
