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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1919 
The President moved the following nominations to office, all of which 
were agreed to : — 
Vice-Presidents : 
C. Bowly, Sir Francis Darwin, C. Upton, W. R. Carles, and M. W. 
Colchester- Wemyss. 
Members of Council : 
F. H. Bretherton, E. C. Sewell, J. W. Gray, L. Richardson. 
Treasurer : 
J. H. Jones. 
Secretary and Librarian : 
Roland Austin. 
On the motion of the President it was agreed to insert the words “ an 
Hon. Director of Excursions ” after the word “ Treasurer ” in Rules 3 and 9 
respectively, and to appoint Mr. J. W. Gray, F.G.S., as Director for the 
year 1919. 
The Hon. Secretary read the following Report : — 
The number of Members is now in, compared with 109 a year since. 
Three Members have resigned and one, Bishop Mitchinson, who had 
been a Member since 1901, has died. Six new Members have been 
elected during the year. 
I am sorry to say that Mr. Christopher Bowly, one of our Vice- 
Presidents and the second oldest Member in date of election to the Club, 
cannot be here to-day. In his letter of apology he refers to this being his 
59th year of membership. He was elected on the 15th of June, 1859, 
so we hope to be able to congratulate him on having been a Member for 
60 years. When the dates of election were placed against the names of 
Members in our printed list I understood that it was difficult to trace 
some. The date against Earl Ducie’s name is 1876, but he was elected 
(as Lord Moreton) at the Annual Meeting held on the 31st of January, 
1853, and so is within a few days of completing his 66th year of member- 
ship. It is of interest to note that in September, 1853, Earl Ducie — as 
he had then become — was present at a meeting held by invitation of the 
late Mr. W. H. Hyett at Painswick House, and joined in a discussion on 
the Combrash in the neighbourhood of Cirencester. Sir Wm. Marling 
this year completes 54 years of membership, and other Members, 
including our Treasurer, over forty. 
Of the activities of some of our Members I may mention that during 
the past year belated parts of the German Handbuch der Regionalen 
Geologie, which is being compiled with the co-operation of European 
geologists, have, through the agency of H.M. Stationery Office, reached 
this country. Memoirs on the geology of the British Isles are included 
in Volume III., for which Mr. Richardson has written on the Trias and 
Rhaetic of England and Wales. In Professor Kendall’s monograph on 
the Carboniferous, Permian, and Quaternary, he notes the work of Mr. 
