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7. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. — Sixth Anxuaj. 

 Report of the Council.' — The state of comparative maturity 

 to which the society has now arrived, affords less interesting 

 matter for remark than during its early progress. The council, 

 therefore, in discharging this their annual duty to the members, 

 have little left them to do, but to call their attention to the 

 respectable rank which the institution has attained ; and to urge 

 the necessity of their continued patronage to ensure its stability. 



Independently of the intrinsic advantages of an institution of 

 this kind, in gradually adding, by the labours of its members, 

 to the knowledge of the physical structure of Cornwall ; it pos- 

 sesses a secondary value, by attracting to this part of the 

 county individuals eminent for their genius and scientific ac- 

 quirements, whose presence cannot fail to be useful to any 

 place which they visit. 



Owing to expenses incidental to the completion of a new 

 museum, the funds of the society have not, as was expected, as 

 yet justified the addition, by purchase, of any new minerals to 

 the cabinet ; neither have the donations been so numerous and 

 splendid as last year. The society has, however, been favoured 

 with not a few specimens, as well from members as others. 



The communications on geology, and the branches of science 

 connected with it, have been numerous and valuable ; and the 

 quantity of information contained in several of these respecting 

 the structure of the county, and its mineral repositories, renders 

 it the duty of the council to lay them before the public as soon 

 as materials for a second volume are accumulated, a period 

 probably at no great distance. 



The council regret that the backwardness of many of the 

 members, who have it most in their power, to forward some of 

 the most interesting objects of the institution, justifies, and, 

 indeed, renders necessary, the repetition of the following appeal 

 to their liberality and zeal. 



" The council cannot avoid expressing their regret, that so few 

 new specimens have been obtained from the county mines ; and 

 that, consequently, the department of the cabinet set apart for 



