On Wednesday, the day's proceedings began with the Council Meeting at the 

 Bowness Institute, after whieh the Annnal General Meeting was held, the 

 President in the chair. 



The Yearly Report and Balance Sheet were read by the Hon. .Secretary, the 

 Chairman remarking that the unfavourable financial condition of the Association 

 was largely due to the very inadequate sale of the Trattsactions among the 

 members of the affiliated Societies, only a little over four hundred copies having 

 been taken last year, though there were nearly 1300 Association Members, and 

 intimating that it had been found needful, in consequence, to reduce, for the 

 present, the length of the annual volume from over 200 pp. to 150 pp. 



The Reports of the Societies having been taken as read, it was moved and 

 carried that the Report and Balance Sheet of the Association, just read, be 

 adopted. On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. Healey, (Winder- 

 mere,) Mr. David Ainsworth, M.P., was unanimously elected President for 

 the ensuing year. Mr. Goodchild and Mr. R. Crowder were re-elected 

 Editor, and Secretary and Treasurer respectively. The Rev. H. A. Macpherson 

 was appointed Zoological Recorder ; and the Rev. J. WOOD of Rosley, and 

 Mr. VV. Hodgson, Botanical Recorders. The reading of original papei's then 

 commenced with one by Mr. Schneider, on "The Haematite Iron Mines of 

 Low Furness," read by Mr. Irving, and illustrated by the author by means of 

 a large-scale map. The next paper was one on "The Birds of Cumberland, 

 with Observations on the Birds of Westmorland," by the Rev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson and Mr. W. Duckworth. Mr. Postlethwaite of Keswick then read his 

 paper, illustrated by diagrams, on "The Trilobites of the Skiddavv Slates." 

 A paper on "The Phonetic Structure of the Dialects of Cumberland and 

 Westmorland," read by the author, Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.G. S., concluded 

 the business, several papers having been omitted for want of time. A vote of 

 thanks to Mr. Schneider and the Committee of the Windermere Society, for 

 the hearty way in which they had laboured to make the Meeting a success, was, 

 on the motion of Dr. Troutbeck, seconded by Mr. W. I. R. Crowder, carried 

 unanimously. A similar compliment having been paid to the readers of papers, 

 and a hearty vote of thanks passed to Mr. R. S. Ferguson, for the admirable 

 way in which he had filled the Presidential chair for two years, the company 

 adjourned to luncheon at the Old England Hotel. 



At two p.m., the carriage Excursions to Dungeon Gill, Skelwith Bridge, &c.; 

 and also to Kirkstone, via Troutbeck, returning through Ambleside, favoured 

 as they were with the finest possible weather, brought the Annual Meeting of 

 the Association to a pleasant conclusion. 



