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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB 
AT THE 
SEVENTY-THIRD 1 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
JANUARY 2 ist , 1919, 
W. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY, President, 
IN THE CHAIR 
The Minutes of the 17th December, 1918, were read and confirmed. 
The Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester (H. Gee, F.S.A.), nominated 
by the President, and seconded by the Secretary, was duly elected a Member. 
The Treasurer presented the Statement of Account for 1918, which 
showed a balance in hand of ^34 2s. nd. 
Mr. W. R. Carles (Vice-President) took the chair and moved the suspension 
of Rule 9 so far as it relates to the period of holding the office of President, 
which was agreed. 
In proposing the re-election of Mr. St. Clair Baddeley as President 
he spoke of the great interest which Mr. Baddeley had maintained in the 
work of the Club during the years of the War and of the extreme thoroughness 
and tact with which he had carried out the duties of President. 
Rev. A. R. Winnington-Ingram seconded the motion, which was carried 
with acclamation. 
Mr. Baddeley thereupon resumed the Chair, thanking the Members for 
electing him a fourth time in succession as their President, and expressing 
his sense of the compliment they paid him. 
1 The Club was established in July, 1846, and at the “ Winter ” meeting held 1st December 
of that year “ the main business of the Club was transacted, the present officers being allowed 
to retain their posts for another year, the accounts audited, the minutes of the last meeting read, 
and the places of meeting for the ensuing year fixed.” This may be taken as the first annual 
meeting, though the early minutes refer to similar meetings held in December, 1847, and in 
January, 1849, and succeeding years as the “ Winter ” ones. Accepting the meeting in December, 
1846, as the first annual one, the meeting held in January, 1919, counts as the 73rd. The first 
printed reference to the sequence of these meetings occurs in the notice for the annual meeting 
of 1909, which is called the " Sixty-first ” (instead of the 63rd), and that numeration was adopted 
in the Proceedings and continued in the record of our meetings up to 1918. For the sake of 
accuracy the correct numbering is now used. 
