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business, and not as usual with a conversazione, because they felt that as 

 the county Association was likelj- to hold one in a few days afterwards, 

 it would be desirable to omit that part of their usual proceedings. They 

 had formed an astronomical sub-section during the year, which seemed to 

 hav« done good work. The number of members of the sub-section was 

 seventeen, inclusive of thre3 ladies, and there had been altogether fifteen 

 meetings, with an average attendance of eight members. 



KESWICK LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



7th, SESSION 1875-6. 



President J- Clifton Waed, Assoc. R.S.M.,F.G.S. 



Vice-President .• Alexandee A. H. Knight, M.D. 



Secretary E. J. Geayson. 



Treasurer ... ... .. ... ••• R. R. Lowthian. 



Committee. 



John Fishee Ceosth-waite. 



Rev. Canon Batteesby, M.A. 

 Rev. W. Colville. 

 Rev. a. Howson. 



MEETINGS were held during the Session as foUov;s 



Rev. S. Streeten, B.A. 

 A. B. Wood. 



SUMMER SESSION. 



EieM Meetings. 

 (1.) Crummock Water and Scale Hill. 



(2.) Borrowdale (joined by the Societies of Whitehaven, Workington, and 

 Cockermouth.) 



(3.) Thirlmere. 

 (4.) Penrith. 



At each of these meetings short addresses were given or papers read 

 on Geological and Archaeological subjects. 



WINTER SESSION. 



ORDINARY MEETINGS. 

 Held in the Keswick Library at 7-30 p.m. 



Nov. 1st. — The Peesident, — " Electro-Chemical Decompositions," (illustrated 

 experimentally.) 



