58 Royal Insliiitlinn of Cornwall. 



ell :— Dr. Taunton, Captain Forster, Mr. Cliilcolt, Mr. Car- 

 penter, Mr. Turner, Mr. S. Moyle. 



" Secretaries— Mr. W. M. Tweedy and Mr. J. T. Nankivell. 



" That Dr. Potts be re-elected Lecturer on Chemistry and 

 Experimental Philosophy." 



Report. — The Council of the Royal Institution of Corn- 

 wall have the pleasure to report to the Sixth Annual Meeting, 

 that the Donations to the Museum during the past year have, 

 in number and importance, equalled those in any year since 

 the first, and prove that the Society is looked on with a fa- 

 vourable eye even by those not immediately interested in its 

 prosperity. 



The state of the Museum will, your Council believe, fully 

 satisfy any impartial mind that some progress has been made 

 towards the attainment of those objects for which the society 

 was originally formed, and that by a proper application of our 

 resources more may be done. The very crowded state of the 

 Museum, which has hitherto prevented any systematic arrange- 

 ment, and the want of a suitable Lecture Room, induced your 

 Council to ea'l the attention of the Members to the expediency 

 of endeavouring to obtain a suitable House of our own. At a 

 Special General Meeting called for this purpose, it was resolved 

 that application should be made to the different Members of 

 the Institution, to ascertain to what extent they would be will- 

 ing to contribute to such an object. The result of these ap- 

 plications, as far as they have been made, has been such as to 

 induce a strong hope that this great object may be accom- 

 plished. 



Dr. Potts favoured the Society during the last winter with 

 lectures on Phrenology and on Chemistry, but was, from the 

 state of his health, prevented from continuing them to the ex- 

 tent he liad proposed. 



Mr. Hogg likewise gave two lectures on the Fabulous His- 

 tory of Cornwall, which were evidently the results of considei- 

 able research. 



At a Special General Meeting in June last, it was resolved 

 to enlarge the sphere of the Institution, by admitting Gentle- 

 men residing at a distance, or Officers of his majesty's service, 

 who may have favoured the Society with valuable literary or 

 scientific communications or donations to the Museum, or from 

 whom such assistance may be expected, as corresponding 

 Members. — Theyf are admitted to the Rooms, and to all lec- 

 tures given by the Society'. 



In the hope and belief that Science will advocate its own 

 cause, your Council look forward to a more favourable report 

 of the state of your funds another year, than they are enabled 



to 



