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AMBLESIDE AND DISTRICT LITERARY AND 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



1st session, 1878. 



President 



Rev. H. S. Callender. 



Vice-Presidents. 



Secretary 

 Treasurer 



R. Crewdson, Esq. 



Rev. J. Spaven. 



C. W. Smith 

 W. Lister 



W. Barton 

 T. Bell, Junr. 

 J. Bentley 

 J. Fleming 

 W. Fletcher 



Committee. 



G. Gatey 



E. J. Hebert 



A. Johnston, M.D. 



F. M. T. Jones 

 W. T. Kendall 



MEETINGS were held during the Sessio7i as follows : — 



Ordinary Meetings. 



ffeld in the Lecture Room, Church Street, Ambleside, at Eight p.m. 



— Rev. H. S. Callender, Vice-president — Introductory Address. 



— Mr. J. Bentley — Wordsworth. 



— E. J. Hebert, Esq.. M.A., F.G.S.— The Eye, a victim of con- 

 stant deception. 



—Mr. W. T. Kendall, M.R.C.V.S.— Some of the changes produced 

 in Nature by Chemical agency. 



—Rev. E. M. Reynolds, M.A.— Debate : That the Foreign Corre- 

 spondence of our Newspapers exercises a baneful influence. 



— R. Crewdson, Esq., President — Concluding Address. — Annual 

 Meeting of Members ; Election of Office-bearers. 



Lectures. 



Feb. 8.— J. Clifton Ward, Esq., F.G.S., Assoc. R.S.M.— The old Glaciers 



of Cumberland and Westmorland. 

 Feb. 22.— AVaynman Dixon, Esq., C.E.— Engineer in Egypt for the 



transport of the Obelisk — Cleopatra's Needle : Its History and 



Transport. 



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