IX 



ROYAL mSTITUTION OF CORIfWALL. 



SPEING MEETING, 

 1869. 



The Spring Meeting of the Institution was held on Tuesday, 

 the 18th of May, in the Council Chamber of the Truro Town 

 Hall. The President, Mr. Eogers, of Penrose, being on the Con- 

 tinent, the Chair was taken by Mr. W. Jory Hen wood, F.E.S., 

 F.G.S., &c., a Vice-President of the Institution; and there were 

 also present, besides many ladies : — Mr. Smirke, a Vice-President ; 

 Dr. Jago and Mr. Whitley, Secretaries ; Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer ; 

 Dr. Barham, Eev. H. S. Slight, Rev. J. R. Cornish, Rev. C. R, 

 Sowell, Mr. Carus-Wilson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Remfry, 

 Mr. Dymond, Mr. Pascoe, Mr. Andrew, Mr. A. Paull, Mr. Spry 

 Leverton, Mr. J. R. Paull, Mr. E. T. Carlyon, Mr. John James, 

 Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Peach, Mr. J. T. Blight, Mr. Michell Whitley, 

 Captain Williams, &c., &c. 



The Chairman delivered the followibg Address : — 



We all regret the absence of our excellent President,* and 

 lament the cause of his absence, but, happily, we are permitted to 

 believe that his health is improving; we therefore hope to wel- 

 come him in the autumn, again presiding over us with his wonted 

 ability. 



Your Council have done me — a junior Vice-President — the 

 honour to desire that on this occasion I would act as Mr. Rogers's 

 substitute ; kindly promising me that any deficiencies — and I fear 

 you will discover many — on my part, shall be made good by them. 



Your Officers and Council had confidently anticipated that the 

 tenth number of tlje Journal would have been in the hands of 

 members and subscribers before now; but some little time isj^et 



» Mr. Eogers, of Penrose. 



