A letter was read from Mr. Eogers, of Penrose, in which that 

 gentleman consented to accept the Presidency in succession to 

 Mr, Smirke. 



The foUomng Papers were read : 



Notice of Early Enclosures at Smallacomhe, near the Cheesewring, 

 Cormvall.—Bj Mr. J. T. Blight, F.S.A. 



Chronicles of Cornish Saints. (II. — S. PetrocJc). By Eev., John 

 Adams, M.A. 



Cmi-espondence (Anno 1700J hetiveen the Bishop of Exeter 

 (Trelaivny) and Mr. Charles Godolphin. — From Mr. Jonathan 

 Couch, r.L.S. 



Communications were read, from Mr. Freetli, Duj)orthj Mr. 

 Charles Fox, Trebah ; and Mr. Euys, Enys. 



Mr. Freeth's note enclosed a photograph of the " Long Stone " 

 near Menabilly Lodge, and stated concerning it, that Borlase had 

 given the inscription the wrong way, and that Mr. Michell, the 

 photographer employed by Mr. Freeth, stated that he could see 

 no sign of any cross or inscription on the side unrepresented in 

 the photograph. — Mr. Freeth added that he hoped to send a 

 photograph of the cup and other articles found near St. Austell 

 in 1774, from the Plate in Archceologia, Vol, 9, He had ascer- 

 tained that there was no such Cup among the Communion Plate 

 at St. Austell, as had been traditionally reported, and he had no 

 doubt that it was in Mr. Rogers's possession. 



Mr. Charles Fox's communication had reference to presents by 

 him, viz. — The ISTest of a Spider, from near Orense, in Galicia ; 

 and a Curiously Perforated piece of Slate. Concerning the 

 Spider's Nest, Mr. Fox writes : 



" The texture of this curious little building, which in its shape reminds 

 one of the hut of a Hottentot, is very different from that of the lustrous 

 spinning of the Spiders of Corrientes, of which I presented a specimen on a 

 previous occasion. But the former can also spin threads resembling in ap- 

 pearance those of the Silkworm. We have yet to learn how the young 

 spiders escape from their closely woven prison, and the nature of their food 

 in this early stage." 



Of the perforated slate Mr. Fox writes : 



" The accompanying piece of slate was taken from the slated west end 

 of a cottage in the parish of St. Cleer. During a thunder-storm in 1866 a 

 man observed what he describes as a ball of fire rushing along the road to- 

 wards the house, in which it dislodged, close to the ground, large granite 

 stones, and made a rent IJ foot in diameter. Many of the slates, of which 



