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LI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. 
Tus fifth anniversary of this institution was held in the So- 
ciety’s New Museum in Penzance, on the 6th of October— 
Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. President, in the chair. The 
following Annual Report of the Council was presented, aud read: 
“On reviewing the history of the Society since the last anni- 
versary, the Council is happy to be able to announce the. in- 
creased and increasing prosperity of the Institution. 
“‘The extensive and elegant Museum, which is now com- 
pleted, and which is calculated to meet the necessities of an esta- 
blishment of this kind in its state of perfection, cannot fail to 
have a happy influence on the fortunes of the Society. At the 
same time that it affords every convenience for the prosecution of 
the science of mineralogy and geology, it offers a secure, ample, 
and elegant depository for all kinds of valuable specimens, which 
the liberality and public spirit of its members may wish to see 
concentrated and preserved, for tne good of science in general, 
and for the interests of this county in particular. 
‘Much greater additions, as well of simple minerals as of 
geological specimens, have been made to the cabinet, than du- 
ring any former year ; and it is particularly gratifying, as a proof 
of the great and increasing interest of the Institution with the 
public, that this augmentation arises entirely from private dona- 
tions ;—the liberality of some of its members compensating the 
deficiencies which otherwise must have been produced by the pre- 
sent incompetency of the Society’s funds. The principal con- 
tributors are J. H. Vivian, Esy., W. Maclure, Esq., A. Majendie, 
Esq., J. Paynter, Esq., Dr. Forbes, and the Rev. J. Rogers. 
Incommunicating this very gratifying information, the Council 
cannot avoid expressing their regret that so few new specimens 
have been obtained from the County mines; and that, conse- 
quently, the department of the cabinet set apart for the recep- 
tion of indigenous ores, which ought to be particularly rich and 
splendid, continues to be defective, and is eclipsed by many other 
collections, as well public as private ;—a circumstance uniformly 
exciting the surprise of strangers. 
“Considerable accession of information respecting the geolo- 
gical structure of the county*has been obtained, which, although 
not very extensive, is valuable from its accuracy, and as it fur- 
nishes plans which may be successfully extended to other districts. 
The chief contributors in this way are Mr. Joseph Carne, the Rev. 
J. Rogers, and Dr. Forbes. 
“Ihe Council earnestly request the attention of members to 
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