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3Iay 6. Cornish Telegraph publishes an account of the heavy sea on 

 the 24th of April, at Mount's Bay, Porthleven, and St. Mary's, Scilly. 



May 7. West Briton records the recent discovery of an ancient sepul- 

 chral urn in the parish of Gerrans. 



May 9. Death of Lord Brougham and Vaux, at Cannes, aged 89 years. 



May 20. Death, at Penzance, of the Eeverend John James Carne, M.A., 

 vicar of Eglos-Merther, aged 44 years, author of several Papers in the 

 Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, including "Identification of 

 the Eidwri of the Tregothnan Charter " ; " An Attempt to identify the 

 Domesday Manors in Cornwall"; and "The Bishops of Cornwall, Saxon 

 Period." 



May 22. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Spring Meeting ; Mr. Eogers, 

 <)f Penrose, presiding. The following Papers were read : Ornithological 

 Occurrences in Cornwall; Mr. E. Hearle Eodd. The Cliii- Castle of Kenid- 

 zhek; Mr. J. T. Blight, F.S.A. Chronicles of Cornish Saints (III.— S. 

 Constantine) ; Eev. John Adams, M.A. John De Trevisa ; Mr. Eogers, of 

 Penrose. Observations made on some Cornish Eelics ; on Flint Implements, 

 the Gulf Stream, the Laocoon, a Memorial- Stone in the Church of Euan 

 Lanyhorne, and other subjects. (See Journal of the Royal Institution of 

 Cornvjall, No. X). 



June 25. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher 

 Cooke," on " Cornish Castles." 



June 29. Death of Sir Samuel Thomas Spry, in the 64th year of his 

 age, at Place House, St. Anthony in Eoseland. 



July 1. Cornish Telegraph publishes " The Antiquity of Bonfires on 

 St. John's Eve, and the observance of the custom in Brittany." 



July 16. West Briton publishes a letter from " Curiosus," concerning 

 the disposal of a collection of Eubbings from Brasses and Monumental 

 Slabs, the property of the late Eev. ^neas B. Hutchinson, B.D, The 

 writer deprecates their being placed in the British Museum. 



July 28, 29. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Literature, 

 Science, and Art. Seventh Annual Meeting, at Honiton ; Mr. J. Duke Cole- 

 ridge, M.A., Q.C., M.P., President. — The following Papers were read: — The 

 Submerged Forest and the Pebble Eidge of Barnstaple Bay ; Mr. W. Pen- 

 gelly, F.E.S., F.G.S. Notes on the Blights of Corn, with suggestions for 

 their prevention ; Eev. E. Kirwan, M.A. The Marine and Freshwater 

 Sponges of Devonshire ; Mr. B. Parfitt. Moral and pecuniary results of Prison 

 Labour; Sir J. Bowring, LL.D., F.E.S. The condition of some of the bones 

 found in Kent's Cavern ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S. , F.G.S. Pseudomorphous 

 Crystals of Chloride of Sodium, and their occurrence in the red rocks of 

 Devon; Mr. G. Wareing Ormerod, M.A., F.G.S. The practical application of 

 meteorological observations ; Mr. W. W. BuUer. The evidences of Glacial 

 Action in South Devon; Mr. E. Vinan, M.A. The Science of History; 



