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the measure of support accorded to the Journal has not been 

 sufficient to waiTant them in continuing its publication half-yearly, 

 and that they have been obliged to revert to the annual issue. 



In reviewing these fifty years past, your Council do so with 

 satisfaction, knowing that the aim with which the Society was 

 founded has been kept steadily in view ; and they look forward 

 with hope to a further progression in years to come. 



The income of the Institution has again exceeded the ex- 

 penditure ; the balance in the hands of the Treasurer having been 

 £34: 2s. Id. for 1867, and being £56 10s. 9d. The Mortgage 

 Debt has been reduced from £245 19s. to £154 15s. 4d. 



The principal event in the past year, ^ in the history of the 

 Society, has been the Excursion to Liskeard and neighbourhood, 

 Trematon Castle, St. Germans Church, &c., on August 10th and 

 11th. So successful was it (more than 120 ladies and gentlemen 

 joining the party) that your Council hope to make, in future years, 

 excursions to other objects of antiquity with which our county is 

 so thickly strewn. The benefits resulting from these visits, in 

 their effect in preserving from mutilation or destruction the ob- 

 jects inspected, cannot be over-rated. Persons dwelling near, who 

 care little for these memorials of antiquity, seeing numbers come 

 from a great distance to view what they look at with indifference, 

 learn to treat them in future with more respect. Your Council 

 cannot but deeply deplore the loss of many of our ancient monu- 

 ments, and would call on those landowners who may have any of 

 these remains on their lands, to guard them from injury, with a 

 jealous care. 



During the past year the establishment of a Chemical Class, 

 under the tuition of Mr. J. B. Collins, has been promoted by your 

 Council in conjunction with the Truro Institution, and with a 

 very fair measure of success ; the number attending at our lecture- 

 room, and that with much regularity, being between 20 and 30. 



Your Council would here call attention to the Meeting of the 

 British Association at Exeter next year, when we look forward to 

 the production of Papers more particularly bearing on our local 

 Antiquities, Geology, &c. 



Although reduced to an annual issue, the Number of the 

 Society's Journal last issued will, your Council trust, be found 

 equal in interest to any of its predecessors. With a view to en- 

 hance the value of future Numbers, an Illustration Fund has been 

 formed, in order to increase the excellence, and if possible the 

 number, of the engravings. 



During the past year the total number of free admissions to 

 the Museum has been 6,259. 



The meteorological observations have been carried on during 



