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PENRITH AND DISTRICT LITERARY AND 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



5th session, 1885-86. 



President ... Rev. Ebvt. W. Chapman, M. A. 



Vice-Presidents. 

 Rev. J. H. OusTON. 1 W- B. Aknisok. 



J. B. Shawtek. 

 H. M'Lean Wilson, M.B. 



George Watson. 



F. King. 



G-. V. Smith. 



J. Simpson Yeates. 



C. H. Graham. 



Treasurer 

 Secretary 



Committee. 



Rev. W. M. SCHNIBBEN. 



T. Lester. 



J. G. GooDCHiLD, H.M.G.S. 

 Rev. H. Whitehead. 

 J. Thompson. 



The following MEETINGS loere held during the Sesdoti:— 



1885. 

 Nov I 5 —Conversazione and Annual Meeting. 

 Nov.*12.-C. H. HiGGiNS, Esq., M.D.-"Who wrote the Plays ascribed 



to Shakespeare;? "£ Lecture 1. 

 Nov. 19.-C. H. HIGGINS, Esq., M.D.-"Who wrote the Plays ascribed 



to Shakespeare ? " Lecture 2. ^^ 



Dec 3 -Geo. Watson, Esq.-" Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke 

 Dec' 10-Eev. H. D. Rawnslet, M. A.-" Personal Reminiscences of a 



Tour from Cairo to Mount Sinai, in the Track of the Children 



of Israel," illustrated by Photographs. 

 Dec. 17.-C. Eeddie, Esq., D.Ph.-"The Chemistry of Combustion, 



illustrated by Experiments. Lecture 1. 



Jam^^-C. Eeddie, Esq., D.Ph.-"The Chemistry of Combustion." 



illustrated by Experiments. Lecture 2. 

 Jan. 14.- J. N. Hethekington, Esq.-"TheEise of Periodical Literature." 

 Jan 28 —The Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 

 Feb 4 -Henry Marten, Esq.-" Fifteen Years in New Zealand." 

 Feb 18 -Eev. J. S. Ostle, M.A.-" Notes on Cumberland Dialect. 

 Mar 4 -Eev. 'H. W^hitehead. -" George Fox, the Quaker." 

 Mar 25. -J. G. Goodchild, Esq., H.M.G.S. -"Fowling." 



