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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
COTTESWOT 5 D ^NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB 
AT THE 
SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
JANUARY i8th, 1916. 
The Hon. Secretary announced that the President, Captain J. R. Ains- 
worth-Davis, was away on War Service, and had written expressing his in- 
ability to be present at the Annual Meeting. 
In the absence of the President, the Rev. Walter Butt, Vice-President, 
was requested to take the chair. 
The Minutes of the sixty-seventh Annual Meeting, held on Tuesday, 
January 19th, 1915, were read, confirmed, and signed by the Chairman. 
The Chairman explained that he would be obliged to leave early, and 
therefore asked permission to read, before the business of the meeting was 
taken, a report (see Appendix)^ from the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell on the progress 
of the County Flora and the botanical work accomplished during the previous 
two years. Mr Butt mentioned that Mr Riddelsdell had sent a collection of 
violets obtained in Gloucestershire to Mrs Gregory, of Cambridge, the authority 
on this flower, with the result that twelve new varieties were established for 
the County, including, it was believed, Viola rupestris, Schmidt, the rarest 
violet in Great Britain, hitherto found only in Teesdale. Their member, 
IMr Charles Bailey, had examined the list, and described it as “amazing,” 
and had sent to the meeting a collection of eighteen foreign varieties of Viola 
to enable comparison to be made. 
The thanks of the Club were accorded to Mr Riddelsdell for his report 
and to Mr Bailey for his exhibit. Mr Butt then vacated the chair, which 
was taken by Mr G. M. Currie. 
Mr J. W. Gray, the Club’s delegate to the Manchester meeting of the 
British Association, presented the following report and was thanked for the 
same : — 
“ I beg to report that I attended the Manchester meeting of the British 
Association as delegate of' the Club. 
“After the formal business of the Conference of Delegates had been trans- 
acted on September i8th, the Chairman, Prof. Sir T. H. Holland, delivered 
his Presidential Address on ‘The Organisation of Scientific Societies,’ and 
Dr. W. E. Hoyle read a paper on ‘ Local Museums.’ 
I Pp. loi-ioa following. 
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