For the Year 1886-87. 



The past year has not presented many features of interest. The 

 Council regret to observe that, chiefly owing to the withdrawal of 

 the Whitehaven Scientific Association from the Union, the number 

 of its associated Members has been reduced from 1283 to 864. 

 The number of copies of Transactions, No. XL, sold to Societies, 

 is 435, against 506 last year — the Penrith, Carlisle, Keswick, and 

 Maryport Societies having bought 385 copies, leaving only 50 

 copies sold to the remaining five Societies with an aggregate 

 membership of 333. There has been a fair demand for back 

 numbers of Transactions, some of which are now very scarce. 



The plan approved of by the Council of assisting the Committees 

 of affiliated Societies in the compilation of their Programmes by 

 the formation of a list of voluntary Lecturers has not yet been 

 adopted; but if a sufficient number of gentlemen consent to allow 

 their names to appear on such a list, along with the subjects of 

 the papers they propose to treat of, there seems no reason why 

 such a scheme should not prove advantageous in many respects, 

 affording as it would a large field of subjects for the selection of 

 local Committees. 



The Association Lecturer (the Rev. J. G. Wood, F.L.S., &c.,) 

 delivered a highly interesting series of Lectures on Natural 

 History before several of the Societies during the winter. 



It is a matter of congratulation that, in spite of the diminished 

 membership, the accounts for the year show a small balance in 

 hand. 



