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executed with the accuracy for which that eminent geologist is so 

 distinguished. This and a book of reference are now in a forward 

 state, and they are to appear early in the ensuing spring. 



"Although the Society cannot claim this useful and important 

 work as its own labour, it does not the less heartily greet its ap- 

 pearance, and rejoice in its accomplishment. 



" Mr. Henwood's Survey of the Mines is also completed, and the 

 various particulars of it which have been from time to time brought 

 before the Society, with Dr. Boase's Memoir on the Diluvium of 

 Cornwall, and other communications, will appear in a fifth volume 

 of Transactions, now about to be put to press, and which will be 

 published in the course of the next year. 



"The Donations to the Museum have been of great value and 

 importance, particularly an extensive suite of the Silurian rocks of 

 Murchison, by Mrs. Stackhouse, Acton ; of organic remains of the 

 elephant, rhinoceros, and other mammalia from the Sub- Himalayan 

 mountains, by Lieut. Tremenheere, of the Bengal Engineers; and of 

 the organic remains from the slates of our own county, by Mr. 

 M'Lauchlan, of the Ordnance Survey ; by Mr. Peach, officer in the 

 Preventive Service, at Gorran; and by the Curator. For the recep- 

 tion of these and other donations, more accommodation is required, 

 aud the Council propose to obtain it by the enlargement of the pre- 

 sent cases, and the addition of a new one. 



"It being thought that the annual publication of papers read, or 

 abstracts of them, would induce more extensive communications to 

 the Society, the Council have desired the secretary to take the re- 

 quisite steps ; and this will be done for all such as may be presented 

 in the ensuing year. 



" They cannot close their Report without alluding to the loss 

 which the Society has sustained by the removal of Dr. Boase, who 

 for so many years discharged the duties of Secretary with so much 

 honour to himself and advantage to the Society." 



The Treasurer then read his report, which snowed the finances of 

 the Society to be flourishing; 173/. remaining in hand, after defray- 

 ing all expences, exclusive of the present year's subscriptions. 



Thefollovoing Papers have been read since the last Report : — On the 

 Utility of a School of Mines in Cornwall : — on the probable sources 

 of its revenue: — and on the plan of management and of instruction 

 in such an Establishment ; by Henry S. Boase, M.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S., &c, Hon. Mem. of the Society. On the Change of Level of 

 the Land and of Sea, in Cornwall; by Joseph Came, Esq., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S., M.R.I.A., Treasurer of the Society. Note on the Seivaliks 

 or N. W. Sub-Himalayan belt of Hills; by Capt. P. T. Cautley, 

 Bengal Artillery,F.G.S., &c, Corresponding Member of the Society. 

 On the Fossils which occur in some of the Slates near Gorran, and 

 Fowey; by C. W. Peach, Esq., Associate of the Society. On the 

 relations which exist between Elvan Courses and the central Gra- 

 nite; by Joseph Carne, Esq., F.R.S., &c, Treasurer. On the ef- 

 fects of a trap-dyke on the contiguous strata in a Colliery in Durham ; 



