72 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



June 14 a7id 28 ; a7id August 2. West Briton publishes a series of Articles 

 entitled " Cornubiana." 



June 20. Cornicall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher Cooke " 

 on " Cornish History." 



June 26. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed " W. N.," London ; 

 on " The Fires of Midsummer Eve." 



June 27 and July 19. Western Morning News publishes " Historical 

 Notes of Tywardreath," by a former Curate of the Parish. 



July 3. Coriiish Telegraph publishes a letter signed " Old Celt," on 

 " Cornish Cousins, &c." 



July 10, 17. " The Piskey's Vengeance ; a Midsummer Night's Legend " ; 

 published in Cornish Telegraph. 



July 11. Pte-opening of Altarnun Church, after restoration. 



Juhj 16. The parish Church of Lanteglos-by-Camelford re-opened, after 

 restoration, on the anniversary of St. Julitta's martyrdom, A.D. 305. 



July 23. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Literature, 

 Science, and Art. Sixth Annual Meeting, at Barnstaple ; Mr. W. Pengelly, 

 F.R.S., &c., president. — The following Papers were read: — Devonian Folk 

 Lore; Sir John Bowring, LL.D., F.R.S. Some popular local superstitions ; 

 Mr. J. E. Chanter. The part taken by North Devon in the earliest English 

 enterprizes for the purpose of colonizing America ; Mr. E. W. Cotton. The 

 Priory of St. Mary's, Pilton; Mr. Townsend M. Hall, F.G.S. The Eemains 

 of Ancient Fortifications in the neighbourhood of Bideford ; Mr. J. A. Pariy. 

 The Ancient History and Aborigines of North Devon, and the site of the 

 lost Cimbric town of Artavia ; Mr. J. E. Chanter. The Antiquity of Man in 

 the southern districts of England ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., &c. The Temper- 

 ature of the Ancient World; Professor Daubeny, F.R.S. The opening of an 

 ancient British Barrow at Huntshaw ; Mr. H. Fowler. The results of the 

 opening a Barrow at Putford ; Eev. J. L. May. The Evidence of Pras-historic 

 Man found in Constantine Bay, Cornwall ; Mr. C. Spence Bate. The Car- 

 boniferous Beds adjoining the northern edge of the granite of Dartmoor ; 

 Mr. Ormerod, F.G-.S. The Eaised Beaches in Barnstaple Bay; Mr. W. Pen- 

 gelly, F.E.S., &c. Prison Discipline ; Mr. E. Vivian. The Distribution of 

 the Devonian Brachiopoda of Devonshire and Cornwall ; Mr. W. Pengelly, 

 F.E.S., &c. The Annelids of Devon; Mr. E. Parrett. The Parasitism of 

 Orobanche Major; Mr. E. Parrett. Murchisonite Pebbles and Boulders in 

 the Trias ; Mr. W. Vicary. The Flotation of Clouds and the Fall of Eain ; 

 Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., &c. St. John's Church, Torquay; Mr. E. Vivian. 

 The Longitude of Places, and the application of the Electric Telegraph to 

 determine it ; Mr. Jerwood. The Deposits occupying the valley between the 

 Braddon and Waldon Hills, Torquay; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., &c. Some 

 Mammalian Bones and Teeth recently found in the Submerged Forest at 

 Northam ; Mr. H. S. Ellis. 



