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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB 
AT THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
JANUARY 19TH, 1915 
Prof. J. R. AINSWORTH-DAVIS, M.A., F.C.P. 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The 
President then delivered his , 
ANNUAL ADDRESS. 
This, our 67th Annual Meeting, takes place while a war 
of unparalleled extent and intensity is being waged by land 
and sea, though we have met before during times of national 
stress, such as those occasioned by the Crimean War, the 
Indian Mutiny, and the South African campaign. We now 
hope and believe that final victory is definitely inclining to 
the side championing right and justice, but so critical were 
the days of last September that we deemed it necessary and 
fitting to cancel our last summer excursion of the year 1914. 
Since then we have adapted ourselves to an abnormal environ- 
ment, and, most of us being unable to take up arms, we have 
considered it no ignoble task to pursue with unruffled minds 
our peaceful investigations into the secrets of Nature. It 
therefore gives me great pleasure to announce that our Club 
still prospers. 
During the year that has now elapsed we have lost by 
death our old and esteemed friend Dr. Oliver Fowler. Though 
making no pretence to be a scientific expert, his cheerful and 
inspiring personality added materially to the pleasure of many 
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