NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



At the Council Meeting held at Penrith on the 27th of August, 

 1883, several resolutions relating to the management of the Associ- 

 ation were discussed and adopted. 



The most important of these referred to the affiliation of the 

 Cumberland Association with the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. The advisability of taking advantage 

 of every opportunity of raising the status of the Cumberland 

 Association is too obvious to need to be pointed out, and the 

 Council at once decided to take the steps necessary to bring about 

 the affiliation proposed. 



The choice of Delegate lay between our Association President 

 and a member of the Cumberland Association, who should be 

 also a member of the British Association, and should be nominated 

 by him. The President being unable to attend, nominated our 

 Association Secretary, Mr. Robert Crowder, who was present at 

 the Southport Meeting, and duly represented the .'\ssociation as a 

 member of the General Committee, and also at the fourth Confer- 

 ence of Delegates of Scientific Societies held during the Meeting 

 of the British Association. The principal business before the 

 Conference was the consideration of the Preliminary Report of 

 the "Local Scientific Societies'" Committee, appointed by the 

 Council of the Association "tO draw up suggestions upon methods 



