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These remarks were endorsed by Mr. J. J. Ashworth, Mr. 

 W. E. HoYLE, and Mr. Francis Jones. 



The President further reported that Mr. A. P. Hunt, B.A., 

 the Sub-Librarian of Balliol College, Oxford, had been appointed 

 by the Council Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Society. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., exhibited, and presented 

 to the Society, framed engraved portraits of Dr. Edward Holme 

 and Mr. John Kennedy. The engraving of Dr. Holme is from 

 the original portrait in oils by William Scott, in the possession 

 of the Society. That of Mr. Kennedy is taken from a portrait 

 by C. A. Duval, the artist, who was a member of this Society, 

 and it is a very good likeness. Mr. Nicholson mentioned that 

 John Kennedy, of Ardwick, who was elected a member of this 

 Society in 1803, and continued so to his death in 1855, was 

 nearly the first in this district to establish cotton-spinning mills 

 driven by steam power. He was considered a good mechanician, 

 making several improvements in the mule, and was the first to 

 invent the differential motion in the jack -frame. He was a friend 

 of Watt, of Dalton, and of Henry, as well as of other eminent 

 men. 



Mr. Nicholson, in continuation of his remarks at the 

 previous meeting of the Society, stated that our summer migrants 

 continue to arrive near Southport fully as early as in former 

 years, notwithstanding the recent cold season. On Saturday 

 last, April i8th, the common Sandpiper or Summer Snipe 

 {Tofanus hypoleucus) and the Yellow Wagtail {Motacilla rati) 

 were seen, and in Westmorland the common Curlew {Numenius 

 arquata) and the Golden Plover {Charadrius pluvialis) were at 

 their breeding stations by the first week in this month. The 

 dates of the arrival of the above, and the species alluded to at 

 the last meeting, as has been previously stated, are all early, and 

 prove how little the habits of birds are really affected by the 

 state of the weather. 



Mr, W. Barnard Faraday, LL. !>., exhibited some 

 perforated stones found near Kirkby Lonsdale, and remarked 



