14 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1912 



with the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archrcological Society, 

 seems to me a work which this Club might with advantage 

 undertake, and I trust that my successor may find it possible 

 to establish a joint Committee to supervise the enquiry. 

 One point is clear, that if this important work is to be under- 

 taken, it must not be left to enthusiastic but unskilled amateurs. 

 If it is impossible to carry it out under expert control, and 

 in conformity with the well-established principles which 

 regulate archfeological research in other parts of the world, 

 it would be much safer to leave the material undisturbed 

 until it can be dealt with in an adequate manner by our 

 successors. 



In vacating this Chair, after serving as your President 

 for two years, I desire to place on record my cordial apprecia- 

 tion of the unvarying kindness which I have received from 

 the Council and the members of the Club, and to acknowledge 

 the valuable work of our learned Honorary Secretary, Mr 

 Richardson, for the advancement of its interests and the 

 extension of scientific knowledge in our district. Much 

 more might have been done had my place been occupied by 

 a President better qualified than I can pretend to be in the 

 studies to which your attention is mainly directed. 



My place will be taken by an old friend of the Club and 

 a man greatly interested in Botany, in whose hands the 

 interests of the Club and the more efficient prosecution of 

 its objects may be safely entrusted. 



Mr Crooke then left the Chair. 



The Hon. Secretary then called upon the Rev. H. H. Win wood to propose 

 the President for the coming year. 



Mr Winwood spoke in eulogistic terms of the address Mr Crooke had 

 delivered and of the able way in which he had discharged his duties as 

 President during the past two Sessions. 



Mr Winwood then stated that Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., 

 C.I.E., F.R.S., had been invited by the Council to allow himself to be 

 nominated for the Presidentship, but, while expressing his appreciation of 

 the honour that the invitation implied, felt obliged to decline. 



The Council had, therefore, approached Mr Butt, and he, under pressure, 

 had agreed to allow the Council to recommend him to the Club as President 

 for the coming Session. 



Mr Winwood having proposed Mr Butt, and Mr Charles Upton having 

 seconded, Mr Butt was unanimously elected President. 



