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THE FIELD OF THE COTTESWOLDS AND THE 
FIELD OF THE NATURALIST. 
BY 
FREDERICK JOHN CULLIS. 
(Read March 18th, 1919.) 
[Abstract prepared by the Author.] 
In this paper it was claimed, mainly on geological grounds, 
that the homeland of the Club, its “ Field of the Cotteswolds,” 
should include the whole of the Cotteswold highlands and 
practically all the country that can be well seen from them, 
extending from the Wye and the Malverns on the West to the 
chalk country of the “ White Horses ” on the East. This 
would secure to the Club, as in its own preserve, a varied and 
most important area of the older geological formations on the 
West ; and to the East of these the larger part of this Club 
homeland would, in turn, present an almost complete series 
of the Mesozoic or “ Secondary ” formations, these being 
obviously both explained and unified by their being due to a 
long-continued and scarcely interrupted sinking of the land. 
With respect to the “ Field of the Naturalist,” the paper 
pressed for such an extension of the customary limits of our 
natural history as would include the objective aspect of both 
Psychology and Sociology, this latter science surveying the 
conditions ruling over the association of defunct parts in the 
constituting of relatively larger wholes from the atoms of the 
chemist to communities of men. This extension, though as yet 
unusual, would not be without precedent, since in the later 
years of the last century the Birmingham Natural History and 
Philosophical Society, which had long worked partly in sub- 
ordinate sections, had, amongst others, its “ Sociological 
Section.” 
