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The past year has not been of a very eventful character as regards 

 the Association, and no new Society has been affiliated with it. 

 The Workington Society, though still a member of the Union, 

 has during the past year been in an unsatisfactory condition, 

 and it is earnestly to be hoped that this once flourishing Society 

 may, by local effort, be once more resuscitated. Through this, 

 [■and other reasons, the Association now numbers about 1217 

 members, against 1380 in April last. 



During the past year the Association has been affiliated with the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, and there is 

 reason to expect that the formal recognition for the first time by 

 this great Association of the claims of Local Societies, may prove 

 to be of considerable advantage to them, both by raising their 

 status and increasing their means of usefulness. (The subject will 

 be found fully explained in the notice on p. xxxiii. of No. viii.) 



It is still a matter of regret that the affiliated Societies, as Avell 

 as the people of Cumberland and Westmorland generally, do not 

 take a larger number of copies of the Transactions. The advantages 

 of a publication of this kind should not require to be urged before 



