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a beautiful suite of Madrepore limestones from the neighbourhood 

 of Torquay, by John Edward Lee, Esq. ; a second contribution il- 

 lustrative of the geology of India, by |the Rev. George Pigott (late 

 librarian to the Society) ; some splendid coal fossils from Hadstock, 

 by Henry Pendarves Tremenheere, Esq. ; the Rev. Canon Rogers's 

 valuable suite of specimens from the Serpentine of Pennare Point, 

 in this county ; an admiratjle series of the rocks and minerals of 

 the Wherry Mine, by Richard Pearce, Esq. ; and some very beautiful 

 minerals from Cuba, by John Garby, Esq. 



" The Council also notice w^ith peculiar satisfaction the interest 

 shown in the advancement of the Society, by the practical miners of 

 the county ; and they refer particularly to the valuable donations 

 of Messrs. William Francis of the Consolidated Mines, John Williams 

 of the Virtuous Lady Mine, and John Lyle of the Cam Brea Mines ; 

 Mr. Peach has also, in the present year, made considerable additions 

 to the collection of organic remains which he presented at the last 

 anniversary. 



" The establishment of an Academy for Instruction in the Arts 

 and Sciences, connected with mining in Cornwall, has been a long- 

 cherished object of the Society ; but it is obvious that such an in- 

 stitution is not likely to be formed, until the mining interest in ge- 

 neral shall be convinced of its utility'and necessity, and shall express 

 their opinion in its favour. The Council rejoice in the belief that 

 this conviction is increasing ; and that it will not be long before, 

 either by the establishment of a kind of experimental college, or by 

 the periodical visits of the principal professors of the arts and sciences 

 connected with mining, the reproach which has been long and de- 

 servedly applied to Cornwall, or rather to England, that, with the 

 richest and most instructive mining field in Europe, it is behind 

 almost every other nation in furnishing scientific information to its 

 mining population in general, and in providing the means of leading 

 those on whom the management of the mines principally depends, 

 into the higher parts of the sciences which bear upon the theory and 

 the practice of mining, — will be entirely wiped away. 



" During the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, a 

 committee was appointed for the purpose of assisting different mining 

 districts in an united effort to originate a school for instruction in 

 the arts and sciences, connected with mining, on an enlarged scale ; 

 and the council embrace the present opportunity of calling on the 

 members, and all who are in any way connected with the mining 

 interest of this County, and the interests of science generally, to use 

 their best exertions to promote so important an object." 



The following papers have been read since the last Report. Notes 

 on the Serpentine of Pennare Point. By the Rev. Canon Rogers, 

 A.M., Member of the Society. Notice of a raised beach immedi- 

 ately under a part of the Town of Penzance. By Joseph Came, 

 Esq., F.R.S., &c. On the joints in the Chalk of Beachy-head. 

 By John S. Enys, Esq., Member of the Society. On the metal- 

 lic copper found in the turbaries near Dolgelley, Merioneth. By 

 W. J. Kenwood, F.G.S., London and Paris, H.M., Assay Master 



