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had been presented by Mr. Hare, of Liskeard, to whom the 

 Institution was indebted for much vahiable assistance in connec-. 

 tion with the Excursions last August. 



The following Papers were presented : — 



On a new British Eschara, and on the occurrence, in Cornwall, of 

 Sphenotrcechus Wrightii, of Gosse. — By Charles William Peach, A.L.S. 



Chronicles of Cornish Saints. (IV. — aS'^. Sampson). By Rev. 

 John Adams, M.A. 



The Creen Book of St. Golumb. — From Mr. R. K Worth, 

 Plymouth. 



A letter from Sir Paul W. Molesworth stated that the re- 

 mains of the Cinerary Urns presented by him, were found 

 by himself and his brothers in two Barrows on St. Breoke 

 Downs, not far from the fine quartz menhir known as St. Breoke 

 Beacon, the Pawton Cromlech, and other antiquities. In each 

 barrow the fragments discovered were but a collection of pot- 

 sherds ; in one case not more than two or three pieces ; in the 

 other case the fragments were more numerous. They are of glazed 

 ware, like our modern loam pitchers, and the fragments are suf- 

 ficient to show the form and ornamentation of the vessel. These 

 latter were found mixed with earth at the end of a large schist 

 stone, about three or four feet long, three feet high, and one foot 

 thick, standing erect, and facing north and south at the north side 

 of the centre point of the Biirrow. — One of the Barrows was de- 

 scribed by Sir Paul Molesworth as composed of a heap of stones 

 covered with a layer of clay and soil about three or four feet 

 thick, and having apparently in its centre, at the level of the 

 country, a trench east and west, flanked by a large slate stone 

 standing on the north side of the trench, about four feet long-, 

 three feet high, and one foot thick. At one end of this stone, 

 mixed with the in-fallen soil, were the fragments of earthenware. 

 On the outside of the Barrow there was a considerable depression, 

 or pit. 



Concerning the Rubbmg from Tresco Abbey Church, Dr. 

 Bannister wrote as follows : 



St. Day Vicarage, Scorrier, 



Nov. 28, 1868. 



As I fear I may not be able to attend the foi'tlieoming Meeting of the 

 Royal Institution, I send for exhibition the Eubbing of the men scryfa at 

 Trescow Abbey. As far as I am aware, this stone has never before been 

 noticed. It is partly under the eastern jamb of the south doorway of the 

 Abbey Church. The rubbing is not a good one, as the materials we had were 

 not of first-rate order ; as a consequence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to 



