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July 24. Cornish Telegraph publislies a letter sigued " W. B.," on 

 •' West Country Words." 



August 8. Cormvall Gazette records that Eock Markings similar to those 

 observed in Upper India in 1855, and subsequently in Scotland by Sir J. Y. 

 Simpson, Bart., and in the Isle of Man and West Corn-wall by Mr. Blight, 

 had recently been discovered by Mr. Henwood on the highest rock of the 

 Cheesewring hill. 



August 14. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed " Perambulator," 

 Carn-G-alver ; on " The Phoenicians in West Cornwall." 



August 14, 21, 28 ; September 4, 25 ; October 2, 23, 30 ; November 13, 

 20; December 4, 11, 18, 25. Cornish Telegraph jiXxblislnQs, a Series of Articles 

 entitled "An Excursion from Penzance to Land's End," from " Old Celt." 

 It includes notices of the following localities, &c. : — Mousehole, Mansion- 

 house and Ghosts of the Keigwins ; Dolly Pentreath, alias Dolly the Spring 

 Peter Pindar, Price, and Praed, at Trevethow ; Trevella Cam ; Nancy Tre- 

 noweth, the fair daughter of the Miller of Alsia ; The Penberth Smugglers 

 and Algerine Pirates ; Lamorna Cove and Granite Works ; The Dwellers of 

 Chenance, &c., &c. 



August 16. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Special Meeting; Mr. 

 Smirke presiding. — Exhibition, by the Queen's permission, of an Ancient 

 Gold Cup found near the Cheesewring, in 1837. — A Memorandum read, from 

 Mr. Thomas Cornish of Penzance, on rock-markings at the Cheesewring, 

 discovered by Mr. W. J. Henwood. — (See Journal of the Eoyal Institution of 

 Cornioall, Nos. VIII, IX.) 



August 23. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 35th Annual Exhibi- 

 tion ; Mr. Eogers, of Penrose, presiding. — The following Papers were read : — 

 Eeport of proceedings in Dredging Excursions on the South-east Coast of 

 Cornwall, in 1866; Jonathan Couch, P.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. Eoman Coins 

 found at Pennance Earm, near Falmouth ; Thomas Hodgkin. Eubbings from 

 Cornish Monumental Brasses ; N. Hare, jun. 



August 26. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Annual 

 Meeting at Falmouth; Sir William Williams, Bart., president. 



August 26. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Mr. W. P. Dymond 

 and Mr. Alfred Lloyd Fox appointed Honorary Secretaries, on the resignation 

 of Dr. Le Neve Foster. 



September 4, and following days. Annual Meeting of the British Associ- 

 ation, at Dundee ; the Duke of Buccleuch, President. — Among the Papers 

 read were the following :■ — -Third Eeport of the Committee for the Exploration 

 of Kent's Cavern ; Mr. W. Pengelly. Mammalian Eemains from the Sub- 

 merged Forest in Barnstaple Bay; Mr. H. S. Ellis. Naked- eyed Medusse ; 

 Mr. C. W. Peach. The -Fructification of Griffithsia Corallina; Mr. C. W. 

 Peach. Fossil Fishes of the Old Eed Sandstone of Caithness and Sunder- 

 land ; Mr. C. W. Peach. Eeport on the Fauna and Flora of the Southern 

 Coasts of Devon and Cornwall ; Mr. C. Spence Bate. 



