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ASSOCIATION LECTURER. 
Professor Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E., of University College, 
Dundee, was engaged by the Council as Association Lecturer. 
He lectured before six of the Local Societies, together with the 
Wordsworth Institute, Cockermouth, and was well received. The 
Council regret that several Local Societies did not have the 
Association Lecturer. The opportunity of hearing Professor 
Geddes on “ Darwin and Evolution,” or any of his subjects, at the 
terms the Council were enabled to arrange, was one that all should 
have embraced, in addition to their regular courses. 
The lecturer of the previous year, J. Arthur Thomson, Esq., 
was also engaged by two of the Local Societies, and enquired for 
by a third; but as the Local Secretaries neglect to advise and 
consult with the Association Secretaries when making their 
arrangements, it is to be regretted that further advantage could 
not be taken of Mr. Thomson’s visit. 
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 
Early in the spring the Secretaries obtained detailed information 
from our English and Scottish Universities on this subject, and 
prepared a circular, accompanied by a syllabus, offering Courses 
of Lectures from Glasgow University, as being in their judgment 
the best value obtainable. ‘The circular and syllabus were sent to 
the Committees of all the Local Societies and other kindred 
associations in the two counties. 
The responses were most unsatisfactory, and the Secretaries feel 
convirtced that the time is not ripe for concerted action in this 
direction. 
Last year the Association passed a resolution making a grant to 
those Societies taking a University Extension Course. It scarcely 
appears as though this grant could be continued, in the face of 
such an adverse balance. 
