THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, JUNE Ist., 1836. 

 No. 42.J Price Sixpence. [Vol. VII. 



THE MEDAL OF THE PLYM, TAMAR, LYNHER, 

 AND TAVY HUMANE SOCIETY. 



Tmc engraving annexed is a facsimile of the beau- 

 tiful medal, now being prepared for the Plym, 

 Tamar, Lv^nher, and Taw Humane Society, to be 

 presented to hucli mdividuals as may have saved or 

 attempted to save the lives of persons apparently 

 drowued, or m danver of death from drownmg. 



The type of enlightened or scientitic benevolence 

 is personified as a winded being, with a star on her 

 forehead, in the act of raising a human being from 

 the w^ater ; and holdm^r in her right hand the lamp 

 of life, with the flame flickering and uncertain. 



The design is from the pencil of our talented 

 ' townsman, Col. C. H. Smith. 



-1836. 



