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That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to those 

 gentlemen who have favoured the Society with Papers or other 

 Communications in the course of the year, and also to the Donors 

 to the Library and Museum. 



That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr. Henwood, 

 for the ability with which he has presided over the proceedings 

 of this day. 



THE COUNCIL'S REPORT, 



The Council of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, in fulfilling, 

 to the best of then- power, the duty of preparing their Annual 

 Report of the Society's progress, for the consideration of the 

 members, have the satisfaction of feeling that the usefulness of 

 the Society remains unimpaired. The Papers contributed to the 

 Journal of the Institution, and the oral remarks made at its 

 meetings during the past year, may be fairly regarded as equalling 

 in interest those of previous years ; the only drawback being that, 

 through the indisposition of their President, they were deprived 

 of his presence at one or two of their gatherings, where they 

 would have had opportunities of receiving instruction from his 

 well-stored mind, whilst his genial disposition would have enhanced 

 their enjoyment. 



Such an occasion was that of your Annual Excursion, which 

 was this year on a scale of unusual magnitude. In the hope that 

 some members of the British Association, then holding its meeting 

 at Exeter, might be tempted to extend^their trips into Cornwall, 

 an excursion was got up by this Institution, assisted by the Royal 

 Cornwall Polyteclinic Society, to Dolcoath Mine and Cam Brea, 

 with the view of inviting any members of the Association who 

 might be in the county, to become their guests on the occasion, 

 and thus see somewhat of mining operations in CornAvall, and also 

 one of its most remarkable antiquities. Though only few members 

 ■of the Association were among our party, it was efficiently repre- 

 sented by one whose great acc^uaintance with metalliferous mining 

 is universally acknowledged ; whilst the explanations of the modes 

 of working tin mines and of the preparation of tin ores given by 

 the captains of Dolcoath, the history of the mine by one of your 

 Vice-Presidents, ancf the description of the antiquities on Carn 

 Brea by one of the oldest members of this Institution, and who 

 has filled all its chief offices, were all that could be desired.- — At 

 Dolcoath a most substantial and liberal luncheon was provided, at 



