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falling due for March 29th and April 5th, your Committee thought 
it best to postpone them, in consequence of the General Election 
and the Easter Holidays, and as the season is now so far advanced, 
they have resolved to make the present meeting the last for this 
session. 
In the month of February and the beginning of March, the 
Rey. J. Clifton Ward delivered a course of lectures on “Our 
Mountains, and how we came by them;” also a supplemental 
lecture upon “ Glacial action in the Lake District.” These lectures 
were delivered in the Keswick Museum, and were well illustrated 
by the model, plans, and specimens which are in that collection. 
The attendance was very good, and consisted principally of 
working people, who showed a great deal of interest in the subject 
and the popular way in which Mr. Ward placed it before them. 
During last summer, the Society had three excursions, or field 
days. The first was to Comb Gill and Barf, attended by thirty- 
nine members and friends. The second, round Skiddaw, by way 
of Threlkeld, Mosedale, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck, etc., attended by 
forty-eight persons. ‘The third, by Newlands to Dale Head, and 
so round by Rosthwaite. This was attended by eighty-nine 
persons, many of them being members of the Cockermouth Society. 
The Committee have the pleasure to report that these excursions, 
attended by a total of une hundred and seventy-six members and 
friends, have been conducted without any cost whatever to the 
funds of the Society. They have just paid their own expenses. 
The Committee have also to report that they have settled all 
claims upon the Society up to the present date, leaving a clear 
page for next session. 
It was resolved to grant five pounds from the balance in hand 
to the funds of the Keswick Library for the purchase of books. 
It was also resolved to grant the cost of the notice board, 
erected at the entrance of the field in which the “ Druids’ Circle” 
is situated. 
The election of officers for the ensuing session was concluded 
as follows :— President, Rev. A. Howson; Vice-President, Rev. 
Canon Harford Battersby; Hon.-Secretary, Mr. Wm. Wood; 
Hon.-Treasurer, Mr. Edwin Jackson. Committee, Mr. J. Fisher 
Crosthwaite, Dr. Black, Rev. W. Colville, Mr. John Crosbie, Rey. 
T. K. Richmond, and Mr. H. I. Jenkinson, 
