AMBLESIDE AND DISTRICT LITERARY AND 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



9th session, 1885-8G. 



President 



Rev. E. M. Reynolds. 



Pant-Presidcntn. 



R. Ckbwdson, Esq. | Rev. H. S. Callendee. 



Vice-P7'esidenig. 



F. M. T. Jones, Esq. | G. Gatey, Esq. 



Treasurer 

 Secretary 



W. Lister. 

 J. Bentley. 



C. W. Smith. 



T. Bell. 



Rev. C. H. Chase. 



J. Fleming. 



J. Hied. 



T. Mackereth. 



Delegates. 



Committee. 



J. Bentley. 



W. E. Percival. 

 H. Redmay'Ne, Esq. 

 J. Russell. 

 Mr. Stalkee, Senr. 

 0. W. Smith. 



The following MEETINGS tvere held during the Session 



1885. 



Oct. 30 — J. C. BucKMASTER, B.A., F.S.A. — "Art ia its relationship to 



Houses, Furniture, Dress," &c. 

 Nov. C — A. Hamilton, Esq., M.D. — "History of Vacciuation and its 



results. " 

 Nov. 20— A. Steahan, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. — "Our Lake Basins; their 



origin and contents." 

 Dec. 4 — W. G. Collingwood, Esq., M.A. — "Stories of the Stars." 

 Dec. 18 — Rev. G. E. P. Eeade, M.A. — "Lord Clive, and the Foundation 



of the British Empire in India." 

 1886. 

 Jan. 29 — F. Barton, Esq. — "Beethoven aud his Influence on Music." 

 Feb. 12 — Rev. H. Hay'man, D.D. — "Russian Central Asia. " 

 Feb. 26 — J. K. Kendall, B.A. — "The Electrical Transmission of Power." 

 Mch. 12— B. JoMEAUX, Esq., F.R. Met. Soc— "The Comet of 1882, and 



its probable influence on the Earth." 

 Annual Meeting ; Election of Officers. 

 Mch. 23 — J. G. Guodchild, Esq., F.G.S. — "Westmorland Dialects." 



