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Whilst many Members are active in the literary sphere 
I would draw your attention to the effort that is being 
made by the City Council to develop the Gloucester 
Museum. Speaking of what I know, I refer only to the 
Herbaria there. One of these is of prime importance, 
and was rescued from a state bordering on total ruin last 
year. It is now properly arranged and decently housed, 
and owing to the notes by experts upon its critical plants 
has become a collection of the greatest value to botanists, 
not only of this county, but to those in general. When 
the Geologists, Entomologists, and Ornithologists have 
done for Gloucester Museum what the Botanists have 
done for it, its value and interest as a whole will be 
ereater than at present. I hope that our Members if 
called on for help will ungrudgingly tender it. 
Coming now to the consideration of the Club’s more 
immediate affairs, it is pleasant to be able to record a 
yet further increase in the attendance at our Meetings. 
Indeed the Club is in a most satisfactory position, 
numerically, financially, and as regards interest exhibited 
in scientific matters, and seeing that this is the oldest 
Club in England outside London, I venture to think that 
there is ample cause for congratulation. 
It is unnecessary now for the President to discourse 
upon the doings at the Field Meetings. Full details are 
published in the Proceedings. The same remark applies 
to our doings at the Winter Meetings. But it may 
interest Members not directly connected with the Flora 
of the County in preparation to know that real progress 
is being made under the painstaking and energetic direct- 
‘on of the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell. At the end of this 
part of the Proceedings will be found the Report of the 
General Editor that was circulated also to Members just 
before the Annual Meeting. 
