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CHKONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 

 1867, 



January 1. The Western Wlorning Neivs publishes an Article entitled : 

 "Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Six in the West of England." 



January 2. The Cornish Telegraph publishes an " Abstract of the 

 Weather at Penzance and its neighbourhood, for the year 1866." 



January 3. The Cornwall Gazette publishes an Abstract of a Lecture 

 on " Cornish Names," by Eev. Dr. Bannister. 



January 4. The West Briton publishes a Letter signed " Tre," on 

 " Cornish Words and Names." 



January 18. West Briton publishes a Letter, signed " Pen Pol," on 

 " Tre, Pol, and Pen." 



January 22. Death of Sir William Snow Harris, F.E.S., at Plymouth, 

 aged 76. 



January 24. Cornwall Gazette publishes an Abstract of a Lecture on 

 "The Cornish Nationality" by Eev. W. S. Lach- Sczyrma, delivered at the 

 Plymouth Institution. 



January 25. West Briton publishes a Letter on " Cornish Names," 

 from Eev. Dr. Bannister. 



January 25. A specimen of the Iceland Gull (Larus Islandicus) 

 killed in Plymouth Sound. 



January 25. Annual Conversazione of the Torquay Natural History 

 Society. There was exhibited a large case of fossils recently exhumed from 

 Kent's Cavern, under the auspices of the British Association. 



January 25. Mr. Spence Bate, P.E.S., F.L.S., &c., delivered a Lecture 

 at the Truro Institution, on " The Flint Flakes of Devon and Cornwall, and 

 their relation to History." Mr. Bate was of opinion that the use of flint was 

 retained long after the use of metal was known, owing to the scarcity of the 

 latter ; that probably the flint flakes of Devon and Cornwall were of the 

 same age as those found in the barrows containing cremated human bones ; 

 and that there was no evidence to show that they were not coeval with the 

 period which immediately preceded the introduction of Eoman civilization 

 into this country. 



