EDITOR’S PREFACE. 
Each year our Volume of “Transactions” has increased in 
bulk and varied interest, and it might be well for the Members 
of the several affiliated Societies to bear in mind, while writing 
their Papers for the evening meetings, that possibly such Papers 
may be recommended for publication by their own Committee, 
and approved by the Association Council. Remembering this, 
authors will be anxious to write so that the MSS. may pass 
on into the printer's hands without delay, always writing o” one — 
side of the paper only. 
Each author may have Fifty copies of his own Paper done 
up in a separate cover, with the title printed outside, on pay- 
ment at the rate of One Penny per copy for every ten pages. 
The List of Birds found in Cumberland, given at the end of 
the volume, is compiled partly from a list furnished by Mr. George 
Dawson, of Carlisle, and partly from the MS. catalogue of the 
Keswick Museum. Mr. Dawson’s list should have been published 
a year ago, had it not been thought better to defer its publication 
a little until the catalogues might be rolled into one. 
