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upon the practical application of science for the. successful pro- 
secution of its important interests, be the most backward ia 
support of an Institution whose principal object is the diffusion 
of Science? Tothe Miner, what can be of more importance than 
that knowledge which may eventually tend to lessen the present 
uncertainty of his researches? or more desirable, than improve- 
ments in the various and complicated machinery by means of 
which he raises his ore from the bowels of the earth, and fits it 
for the purposes of Art? 
© To the Naturalist, to the Botanist, to the admirer of Nature 
in her rudest forms, Cornwall presents a most interesting field ; 
and among our barrows, hill-castles, and cromlechs, the Antiquary 
may find no slight traces of the Ancient Britons, who amongst 
the wild fastnesses of Cornwall and of Wales long retained their 
native freedom, and where the Druids practised the dreadful rites 
of their bloody superstition. 
‘¢ The Painter will remember that Cornwall was the birth-place 
of an Opie; and may not some future Opie want but the foster- 
ing stimulus of such a Society as this to call his talents forth ?” 
Immediately after the rising of the Annual Meeting, the Secre- 
tary received a letter from T. Vivian, Esq. accompanying copies 
in alabaster of the most celebrated ancient and modern statues. 
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Surry Institution. 
SURRY INSTITUTION,, 182]. 
The following Courses of Lectures will be delivered in the en- 
suing Season : 
1. On Painting, by C. F. Pack, Esq. ; to commence on Fri- 
day the 2d of November, at Seven o’clock in the Evening pre- 
cisely, and to be continued on each succeeding Friday. 
2. On the Elements of Chemical Science, by John Murray, 
Esq., F.L.S. M.W.S., &c.; to commence on Tuesday, the 6th 
of November, and to be continued on each succeeding Tuesday 
at the same hour. 
3. On Music, by W. Crotch, Mus. D. Professor of Music in 
the University of Oxford; and, 
4. On Natural Philosophy, ‘by Charles Frederick Partington, 
Esq. ; Parly.i in 1822. 
ASTATIC SOCIETY. 
' Ata Meeting of this Society held at Calcutta on the 17th of 
February, an Account of the ‘l'rigonometrical and Astronomical 
Operations for determining the heights and positions of the prin- 
cipal peaks of the Himalaya Mountains, situated between the la- 
titudes of 31° 53’ 10” and 30° 18’ 30” north, and the longitudes 
of 77° 34’ 04” and 79° 57’ 22” east, by Captain J. A. Hodgson, 
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