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, PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 



APRIL 4th, igii 



WILLIAM CROOKE, B.A., F.AJ. 



President of the Folk-lore Society 



IN THE CHAIR 



The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed; 



The Hon. Treasurer presented his Financial Report, which was approved. 



The Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, C.M.G., and Mr E. W. Tunbridge, B. Sc, 

 F.G.S., were elected Members. 



The President then delivered his 



ANNUAL ADDRESS 



During the past year, the sixty-third of its existence, the 

 work of our Club has steadily maintained its interest and 

 scientific value. It is true that, without any disparagement 

 of the qualifications of individual Members, we are an associa- 

 tion of amateur workers ; and, as such, we cannot always 

 pretend to attain the standard of the greater scientific societies, 

 which largely consist of experts in various branches of know- 

 ledge. Occasionally, therefore, we admit in our Proceedings 

 contributions which are intended to be suggestive of novel 

 views, not always, perhaps, based on indisputable evidence — 

 but not therefore the less interesting and suggestive. It is 

 well for us to place such views on recoi'd, because with the 

 rapid development of science, .some obscure worker may one 



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