70 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



March 8. West Briton publishes letters, from Rev. Dr. Bannister, on 

 " Cornish Names," and " T. H. Edwards," on " Tre, Pol, and Pen." 



March 13. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Council 

 Meeting. Reported presents of Coins from Mr. Samuel Higgs, jun., and Mr. 

 Caldwell. 



March 20 and 27. Cornish Telegraph publishes a description of " Mor- 

 wenstow," and an account of " Thomasine Bonaventure, or the Cornish 

 Shepherdess of the 15th Century who became Lady Mayoress of London " ; — 

 the former from The Gentleman's Magazine, and the latter from All the Year 

 Round. 



March 28. Cormcall Gazette publishes " Meteorological Observations on 

 the Recent Gales," by Mr. Nicholas Whitley. 



April 3. Died at Goodamore, Plympton, Mr. Henry Hele Treby, a 

 scientific and practical meteorologist. Mr. Treby was a descendant, and the 

 last male representative, of the ancient and important family of that name, 

 who have for ages been connected with the neighbourhood of Plympton, and 

 intimately associated with its history. They were, in conjunction with the 

 Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, possessors of the ancient and now disfranchised 

 borough of Plympton, and always returned one member to Parliament. 



Apiril 4. Annual Meeting of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and 

 Cornwall Natural History Society ; Mr. A. P. Prowse presiding. It was pro- 

 posed to publish in the Society's " Transactions," the following Papers : " A 

 Sketch of the Life of Sir William Snow Harris " ; " Plympton in the Olden 

 Time," by Mr. James Hine ; "Continuation of the list of Lepidoptera of 

 Devon and Cornwall," by Mr. J. J. Reading ; " Continuation of the Flora 

 of Devon and Cornwall," by Mr. J. W. N. Keys. 



Ajml 18. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter on " Cornish Nomen- 

 clature," from Rev. Dr. Bannister. 



April 22. A Purple Crested Heron (Ardea purpurea), in immature 

 plumage, killed at the Lizard. 



April 24. Cornish Telegraph publishes an Article on " Trev/oof (in the 

 parish of St. Burian) and the Legends of the Lovells." 



April 26. West Briton publishes a letter on " Cornish Names," from 

 Rev. Dr. Bannister. 



Aiml 26. West Briton records the recent capture of a specimen of the 

 Little Bittern, at St. Hilary. 



May 1. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter, signed " Old Celt," on 

 "Cornish Drolls and Droll-tellers." 



May 1, 8, and 15 ; June 5, 12, and 26 ; and July 3. Cornish Telegraph 

 publishes " Chronological Memoranda relating to the tovm of Penzance ; " 

 by Mr. J. S. Co\u-tenay. 



