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ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. 



Fourteenth Annual Report of the Council. 



Pursuant to the resolution passed at the last annual meeting, the 

 third volume of the Society's Transactions has been sent to the press ; 

 but the Council are sorry to report, that owing to various unavoidable 

 delays, it is not yet completed ; 300 pages, however, have been 

 printed, and the Editors have pledged themselves that the volume 

 shall be published during the present year. 



The Council have the satisfaction of again announcing the con- 

 tinued prosperity of this Institution ; and of the Museum in particu- 

 lar : indeed so great has been the increase of minerals during the last 

 three years, that a new arrangement of the Museum had become ne- 

 cessary ; which has been performed by the Curator with his usual 

 zeal and ability. 



Since the last anniversary. Sir Charles Lemon, Bart, has presented 

 a numerous and valuable collection of organic remains from various 

 parts of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. These or- 

 ganic remains, together with those from the Malvern Hills, (presented 

 by the same gentleman on a former occasion,) have been arranged in a 

 new cabinet, in connection with those of the Paris Basin, of Sussex, 

 of the Isle of Wight, and other places ; the whole forming a series 

 illustrative of this department of geology, in which the Museum was 

 defective previous to these various donations. 



The thanks of the Society are also due to another of its members. 

 Dr. Davy, for excellent specimens of roclcs, lavas, and various vol- 

 canic productions, which he himself collected last autumn, in Sicily, 

 the Lipari Islands, and the neighbourhood of Naples. These mi- 

 nerals, together with those presented a few years ago by his illustrious 

 brother, and by John Guillemard, Esq., exhibit beautiful and instruc- 

 tive examples of the volcanic formations of the Mediterranean. The 

 Council beg to refer to the Curator's Report for a more particular ac- 

 count of the donations of minerals. 



In consequence of this great increase of minerals, another room 



will be speedily wanted for the extension of the Museum ; and the 



Council are glad to state, that tlie one now occupied by tiie Penzance 



Library may be procured, as this Institution is about to be removed 



;to a larger apartment. 



In order to complete the Geological Map of Cornwall, the Council 

 beg to recommend the distribution of lithographic copies, on an en- 

 larged scale, of the various portions of the map of the county, to 

 members residing in the difterent districts. Several gentlemen have 

 ofl'ered to take the space of a few miles, and to mark the boundaries 

 of the different kinds of rocks, and as far as possible the course of the 

 princij)al veins. In this way much may be effected in a comparatively 

 short period, and by the united labours of the members this great ob- 

 ject may be at length accomplished. 



Professor Savi, of the mineralogical chair of the University of Pisa, 

 has i)roposcd,through the Ilcv. Canon Rogers, an exchange of minerals : 

 but the (Jouncil regret exceedingly that thcv are unable to com- 



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