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the pleasure to report, that there is evidently a growing attention 

 to scientific pursuits, which encourages them to cherish and 

 repeat the expression of their anxious hope that the period is 

 not distant, when the great and leading object of this Society 

 will be realised, and Cornwall at once distinguished and 

 enriched by the establishment of a School of Mines. 



By order, Henry S. Boase, Sec. 



The following papers have been read since the last report : 



On the Tin Ore of Botallack and Levant. By Henry S. 

 Boase, MD. Secretary of the Society. 



A further Account of the Mineralogy and Geology of St. Just. 

 By Joseph Carne, Esq. FRS. MRIA. Member of the Society. 



On the Serpentine District of Cornwall. By the Rev. Canon 

 Rogers, Member of the Society. 



On the Neptunian Theory of the Formation of Veins. By 

 Henry Boase, Esq. Treasurer of the Society. 



On the Noxious Gases of Mines. By Dr. Boase. 



On Submarine Mines. By Joseph Carne, Esq. FRS. &c. 



On the Temperature of the Cornish Mines. By M. P. Moyle, 

 Esq. Member of the Society. 



A proposed new Method of Drawing Mining Maps and Sec 

 tions. Communicated by Mr. Fox. 



On the Temperature of Mines. By Robert W. Fox, Esq. 

 Member of the Society. 



On the Utility of a School of Mines. By Dr. Boase. 



An Account of the Quantity of Tin produced in Cornwall in 

 the Year ending with the Midsummer Quarter, 1822. By Joseph 

 Carne, Esq. FRS. &c. 



An Account of the Produce of the Copper Mines of Cornwall, 

 in Ore, Copper, and Money, in the Year ending the 30th June, 

 1822. By Mr. Alfred Jenkins. 



Officers and Council for the present Year. 



President.— Navies Gilbert, Esq. MP. VPRS. &c. &c. 



Vice-Presidents. — William Rashleigh, Esq. Charles Lemon, 

 Esq. John Scobell, Esq. John Paynter, Esq. 



Secretary. — Henry S. Boase, MD. 



Treasurer. — Henry Boase, Esq. 



Librarian. — T. Barham, MD. 



Curator. — Edward C. Giddy, Esq. 



Assistant-Secretary . — R. Moyle, Jun. Esq. 



The Council. — T. Bolitho, Esq.; Joseph Carne, Esq.; Stephen 

 Davy, Esq. ; Alfred Fox, Esq . ; G. D. John, Esq. ; Rev. C. V . Le 

 Grice ; M. P. Moyle, Esq.; Rev. Canon Rogers; H. P. Tremen- 

 heere, Esq.; John Williams, Jun. Esq. 



