EDITORIAL NOTE 



THE Editor desires to express his thanks to the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles 

 Dilke, bart., LL.M., F.S.A., and Mr. W. R. Champness for kindly re- 

 vising the section of the article on Industries dealing with Mining in 

 the county and making some valuable additions, and also to Sir Charles 

 Dilke and Mr. Philip Baylis, deputy surveyor of the Forest of Dean, 

 for doing the same with regard to the article on Forestry. He has 

 also to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. H. B. Walters, M.A., 

 F.S.A., for information supplied with regard to the article on bell- 

 founding, to Messrs. William Pollard and Co. for permission to re- 

 produce drawings from the late Canon Ellacombe's Church Bells of 

 Gloucestershire, and to Canon Scobell and the Cotteswold Naturalists' 

 Field Club for permission to reproduce illustrations from the 

 Proceedings of that Society. 



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