WORKINGTON SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY 

 ASSOCIATION. 



SESSION 1881-82. 



President ... ... ... ... Rev. J. J. Thoenley, M.A. 



Vice-President ... ... ... C. J. Valentine, Esq. 



Treasurer ... ... ... ... W. Paisley, Esq. . 



Secretary ... ... ••• ••• W. Wilson, Esq. 



Members of Council. 

 Messrs. Thoenley, Valentine, and Wilson. 



Mr. H. Bowes. 

 Mr. Geo. Geaham. 



Mr. C. HiNDMAESH. 



Mr. John Highet. 

 Mr. T. Ceosthwaite. 



Committee. 



Capt. Rice. 



Mr. G. F. Saundees. 

 Mr. J. Bladon. 

 Mr. Thos. Ieedale. 

 Mr. EoBT. Gaednee. 

 Mr. John Tayloe. 



The following Lectures were delivered during the Session: — 



1881. 

 Nov. 16. — Rev. W. Sheewen, M.A. — History of the English Language. 

 Nov. 29. — Conveesazione. (In Assembly Rooms.) Peesident's Opening 

 Addeess. Recitals by W. S. Vallance, Esq., Professor of 

 Elocution, Glasgow University. Vocal and Instrumental Music. 

 Dec. 7.— J. G. GooDCHiLD, Esq., F.G.S.— Birds of Prey. 

 Dec. 28.— J. Newby Hetheeington, Esq., F.R.G.S. — The Beginnings of 

 the English Drama. 

 1882. 

 Jan. 5. —Professor Seeley, F. R. S. , F. G. S. , &c. —The Influence of Natural 

 Phenomena in the Mental and Moral Development of the British 

 People. 

 18. — R. S. Cahill, Esq., of the School of Art, Keswick. — Art and 



Artists. 

 25. — J. W. Montgomeey, Esq., F.C.S. — Food and its Adulterations. 

 8. — Wm. Fletchee, Esq. — Our Colonial Empire. 

 22. — J. Nixon, Esq., B. A — Science in Education. 



Jan. 



Jan. 

 Feb. 

 Feb. 

 Mar. 22.— Rev. J. T. Pollock, M.A.,— Pope. 



The Meetings of the Session were well attended — on an average 

 about seventy or eighty members attending each lecture. 



We are glad to report an increase of membership as against 

 former years ; the number now on the books being i ii members. 

 More general interest has been taken in the work of the Association. 



