CONTENTS. 



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 Notes on the Proceedinos at thk Annual Meeting at Ambleside vii. 



Rules ... ... ... ... ... ... ix. 



List of Officers ... ... ... .. .. xii. 



Reports from the Associated Socteties ... ... ... xiv. 



Report of Association Secretary ... ... ... xxxii. 



Notice to Members of the Association .. ... ...xxxiii. 



Treasurer's Account ... ... ... ...xxxix. 



Part I.— PROCEEDINGS at the ANNUAL MEETING (Ambleside) -.— 



Address by the President (RoBEatT Ferguson, M.P. ) 

 "Notes on the Place-Names of Cumberland anil West- 

 morland." ... ... ... ... ... 1 



"Graptolites of the Skiddaw Slates." By J. Postle- 

 thwaite, F.G.S. ... ... ... ... 37 



"The Proposed Permanent Lake District Defence Society." 

 By the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley ... ... ... 69 



"The Language of Lakeland in its Testimony to the Norse- 

 man and the Celt." By the Rev. T. Ellwood ... 8.3 



Part II. — Papers communicated to the Societies during the 

 Session, 1882-83, and selected by the Association 

 Council for Public.vi'ion : — 



"Contribution towards a List of Cumberland Mosses." By 

 Rev. R. Wood (Carlisle) .99 



"The Botany of the Caldew Valley." By William 

 Hodgson (Carlisle) ... ... .. ... 127 



"Professor Robert Harkness, F.R.S." By J. G Goodchild, 

 H.M.G.S. (Penrith) ... ... ... ... 145 



"Water Supply in the Carlisle Basin." By T. V Holmes, 

 F.G.S. ... ... ... 17 



