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May 4. A Woodcock, in fine condition, captured at Cannalidge3% St. 

 Issey. 



May 6. An extraordinary agitation of the sea, between 5 and 7 a.m., 

 at Penzance. 



May 8 and 22. Cornish Telegraph publishes " A Cornish Droll ; Betty 

 Toddy and her gown " ; by " An Old Celt." 



May 8. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Meeting 

 of Council. The reported presents included : Flint spear-head and bronze 

 celt found at Leah, Sancreed ; Querns found at Morvah and Tredavoe ; frag- 

 ment of granite basin, one perfect quern, fragments of three other querns, 

 several muUers, a spindle-whorl, a slate disc, two whetstones, a flint nodule, 

 water-worn quartz pebbles, charcoal, charred stone, bones, and pottery, 

 found in the remains of an ancient structure accidentally destroyed by work- 

 men in the course of some improvements of the Vynyeck at Boscawen-Un. 

 — The Secretaries reported the occurrence of the Dorse, or Variable Cod, in 

 Mount's Bay. 



May 9. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter on " Monumental Brasses," 

 from Mr. H. Michell Wliitley. 



May 14. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Spring Meeting ; Mr. Smirke 

 presiding. The following Papers were read : Modern Practice of Alchemy ; 

 Mr. Jonathan Couch, F.L.S., &c. Ornithological Occurrences in Cornwall ; 

 Mr. E. Hearle Eodd. Notice of Willsia Cornubica, a new species of naked- 

 eyed Medusffi ; Mr. C. W. Peach. On some Saxon Silver Ornaments and 

 Coins found at Trewhiddle, St. Austell, in 1774 ; Mr. Eogers, of Penrose. 

 Chronicles of the Cornish Saints (I. — St. Cuby) ; Eev. John Adams, M.A. 

 On the Cell-growth of Plants, &c. ; Mr. Enys, of Enys. Notice of a Barrow 

 with Kist-\aen, on Trewavas Head ; Mr. J. T. Blight, F.S.A. On " Jews in 

 Cornwall " ; Eev. Dr. Bannister. — Observations made on Flint Flakes, and 

 other subjects. (See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Nol VIH.) 



May 22. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter from " W. B.," on " The 

 Celtic Monuments of BoUeit." 



May 23. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, from " Christopher 

 Cooke," on " Old Cornwall," recording the Cornish Monoliths, mentioned by 

 Dr. Borlase in his " Antiquities of Cornwall." 



May 30. Ee-opening of the Church of St. Michael, St. Minver, after 

 restoration. 



June 5, 12, 19^ and 26. Cornish Telegraph publishes a legendary story: 

 " The Smugglers and legends of Penrose " (in Sennen). 



June 5, 12, and 26 ; ajid July 3. Cornish Telegraph publishes Papers by 

 Mr. William Pengelly, F.E.S., " On the Insulation of St. Michael's Mount, 

 Cornwall." 



