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Uj>on Easter Monday &' Tuesday, April 22 dr* 23, 1878. 



PRESIDENT : ISAAC FLETCHER, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. 



MONDAY, April 22nd. 



4-15 p.m. Address by the President, at the Pubhc Hall. 



5-15 p.m. Paper on " Cockermouth Castle," by Wm. Jackson, Esq., 



F.S.A., in the Stone Room of the Castle. 

 6-30 p.m. Public Tea (in Public Hall.) 

 8-0 p.m. Lecture on " The Probable Condition of the Interior of the 



Earth," by Sir George Airy, K.C.B., F.R.S. , Astronomer Royal, at 



the Public Hall. 



TUESDAY, April, 23rd. 



lo-o a.m. General Meeting in the Pubhc Hall. — Election of Officers 

 and next year's place of Meeting. Reading of Reports from all the 

 affiliated Societies, and Discussion upon Society work in general. 

 11-15 *•">• Reading of Original Papers, (Public Hall :— 

 " Local Names," by Mr. Peter Harrison. 



" Quartz, as it occurs in the Lake District ; its Structure and 

 History," by Mr. J. Clifton Ward, F.G.S. 

 Experiments with the Telephone. 

 1-30 p.m. Public Luncheon at the Globe Hotel. 



3- o p.m. Excursion to the Clints (Limestone rocks) and Isel Hall. 

 6-30 p.m. Public Tea (in Public Hall). 



8-0 p.m. Lecture on "Wordsworth," by the Rev. Professor 

 Wm. Knight, (St. Andrews') ; in the Public Hall. 



