140 BRITISH ASSOCIATION, &C. 



November 25. Cornish Telegraph publishes an account, by " Old Celt," 

 of " Lanyon Quoit and Quoits in general." 



November 30. Boyal institution of Cornwall. Annual Meeting ; Dr. 

 Barham presiding. The following Papers were read : — On a new British 

 Eschara, and on the occurrence, in Cornwall, of Sphenotrochus Wrightii, of 

 Gosse; Mr. C. W. Peach, A.L.S. Chronicles of Cornish Saints (IV.— S. 

 Samson) ; Kev. John Adams, M.A. The Green Book of St. Columb ; Mr. 

 E. N. Worth, Plymouth. (See Journal of the Boyal Institution of Cornwall, 

 No. X). 



December 7. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes and 

 Certificates at Truro, by Mr. Tremayne, of Heligan. 



December 9. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice of " Lanyon," by 

 " Old Celt." 



December 9. Cornish Telegraph publishes, from "W. N., London," 

 " Further Information as to the Noy, or Noyes, Family." 



December 10. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher 

 Cooke," on " Antiquities of Helston." 



December 16. Cornish Telegraph publishes " The Knockers, or Buccas, 

 of the Mines " ; by " Old Celt." 



December 30. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed " Eicardus 

 Super-Sabulones," on the " Folk-Lore of Cornwall." 



December 31. Cormoall Gazette publishes a letter from Mr. Whitley, on 

 " Valley Fogs and their effects." 



NORWICH MEETING or the BRITISH ASSOCIATION, &c. 



Among the multitude of Papers read at the Noi-wich Meeting of the 

 British Association, last August, and at the Third Session of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Pr« -historic Archfeology, at the same place and time, 

 were a few which may be considered especially interesting in Cornwall and 

 Devon ; and we have therefore thought it desirable to lay before readers of 

 our Journal an abstract of such records of these Papers as have fallen under 

 our notice. 



BEITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Section C. — Geology. 



Kent's Cavern. Mk. Pengelly read the fourth report of the Com- 

 mittee for the Exploration of Kent's Cavern. The work of the past twelve 

 months had been the exploration of the portions known as the Lecture Hall 

 and South- West Chamber, In the Lecture Hall, as it was called from 



