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lay the only merit of the service he had rendered. Mr Butt 

 said that the Club was in a prosperous condition, but during 

 the year they had had to deplore the loss by death of six 

 Members, namely. Dr. Oscar Clark, Sir E. M. H. Fulton, 

 Mr B. G. Geidt, Mr G. W. Keeling, Mr W. J. Stanton, and 

 Canon F. E. Broome Witts. He had also heard with sorrow 

 that only the previous day their old Member, Mr Charles 

 Stanton, had passed away. The Hon. Librarian, Mr J. G. 

 Phillips, was resigning office, because he was removing from 

 Gloucestershire ; and Mr E. T. Paris, Hon. Assistant Secretary, 

 was also resigning, but happily this only applied to office, as 

 he would continue a Member of the Club. The membership 

 now stood at 116, and several of those recently elected were 

 workers eminent and well-known. Reference was made to 

 Mr Roland Austin's services, including the compiling of the 

 Index. A tribute was also paid to Mr L. Richardson, Hon. 

 Secretary, for his zeal and energy, and the admirable way in 

 which he edits the Club's Proceedings. The Flora of the 

 County was making satisfactory headway, and next year the 

 speaker hoped to see the proposed preliminary list of plants in 

 the printer's hands. He was happy to say that in June, Mr 

 Riddelsdell, the General Editor of the Flora, would become 

 Rector of Wigginton, near Chipping Norton. This would give 

 him more leisure, and he would also be able to work scientifically 

 and systematically that part of the County which now stood 

 most in need of a trained botanist's attention. Mr H. H. 

 Knight had almost completed a list of the mosses found in 

 the County, and was now at work on the liverworts. It was 

 possible that Mr C. G. Clutterbuck and ]\Ir Butt, junior, might 

 attempt a revision of the list of Lepidoptera for the County. 

 Such a revised list was needed, but what was much more 

 needed was a list of the moths — a considerably bigger piece of 

 work. Dr. D. E. Finlay was spending his leisure hours in 

 accumulating information about the zoology of the County, 

 and Dr. E. T. Wilson had done and was doing valuable 

 work in investigating the remains of NeoUthic man. The 

 name of Mr J . W. Gray might also be mentioned in connection 

 with his work on the origin of the Cotteswold flints. A 

 reference was then made to Mr St. Clair Baddeley's new book 



