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The lectui-e was printed in full in the Cumberland and Westmorland 

 Advertiser at the time, and it would be to the advantage of many 

 if they were to take the trouble to make themselves masters of the 

 principal facts and arguments it contains. Harkness continued to 

 manifest the same kind of interest in everything connected with 

 the intellectual advancement of our local Society when Mr. Gordon 

 gave up the Grammar School courses, and the winter lectures were 

 continued by one of the other founders of the Penrith Society, 

 Mr. Tannahill. 



I have dealt almost exclusively hitherto upon the chronological 

 order of Harkness's Geological work, as being that wherewith his 

 name will always be most associated by posterity :. but no man 

 that had followed the course of Geological enquiry as he had for 

 so many years, could escape being led by degrees to take an 

 interest in that part of Geology that bridges over the interval 

 between the later Tertiary period and the dawn of the historic era. 

 Consequently we find that in everything relating to Pre-Historic 

 Archaeology, he had by degrees begun to feel the deepest interest ; 

 and, side by side with the investigations he was making here and 

 elsewhere in connection with his own especial line of work, he was 

 steadily amassing information relating to the early history of man- 

 kind in this part of the kingdom. The results of some of these 

 investigations appeared in print ; but that he was possessed of a 

 vast fund of information relating to the archaeology of this neigh- 

 bourhood that he never committed to print, no one that had spent 

 many days with him out of doors here could for a moment doubt. 

 It must be a matter of regret with many that he did not more 

 often come before the public with further contributions to the 

 archaeology of our neighbourhood than he has allowed to see the 

 light. In his investigations upon the early history of the Penrith 

 neighbourhood, he used to be much associated with a Penrith man 

 whose name, Harkness often said, was not as much known to fame 

 as it deserved to be. I refer to Mr. Valance Stalker, of whose 

 scientific attainments Harkness was wont to speak in the highest 

 terras. 



I^arkness's last contribution to Geological literature was written 



