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tion to pay your way without diminishing your literary and 

 scientific publications. Since the issue of your Journal has been 

 limited to one Number annually, there has been a yearly surplus, 

 of about =£30 or £40, of income over expenditure, and you would 

 be able to live within your means, in your altered circumstances, 

 without any accession of income ; whilst you can scarcely deceive 

 yourselves in calculating that a more attractive aspect will induce 

 increased support. 



It having been represented to your Council that the stability 

 of the Cheesewring is endangered by the mode in which the 

 working of the adjacent quarries has been extended, a sub-com- 

 mittee was appointed to examine into the facts on the spot ; and 

 on their report a memorial was addressed to the Duchy of Corn- 

 wall, requesting that steps might be taken for preservation of this 

 very intei-esting mass of rocks. No answer has hitherto been 

 received. — The attention of the landed proprietors concerned has 

 also been called to the risk of injury threatening some other im- 

 portant antiquarian relics in the county; and, from, the reply 

 received from Mr. Foster, one of the principal landowners, it is 

 hoped that the efforts employed may be more successful in these 

 cases than they proved in the instance of the Tolmen, which was 

 sacrificed at the beginning of the year. 



In consideration of his scientific eminence, and his long-con- 

 tinued and valuable support of this Institution, in the way both 

 of communications and presents, your Council suggest that Colonel 

 Sir Henry James, RE., be elected an honorary member. 



The Curator, Mr. Newcombe, merits our thanks for the 

 assiduity with which he has continued to make, register, and 

 tabulate the meteorological observations:^^ The instruments have 

 been recently inspected by Mr. Symons, the well-known investi- 

 gator of the British Rainfall. He has approved our arrangements 

 generally, and at the same time offered some suggestions, which 

 your Council think it advisable to adopt. 



The Course of Lectures on Chemistry, conducted by Mr. 

 Collins in this place, during last winter, was well attended ; and 

 you will, no doubt, be desirous that this source of solid instruction 

 shall be maintained ; and further, that other classes may be formed 

 for teaching some of the more directly useful subjects included in 

 the system of the Science and Art Department. The charge en- 

 tailed by our support in such cases is almost nominal, whilst our 

 countenance, and the^accommodation afforded, are of great value. 



The absence of our President, Mr. Rogers, from the meetings 

 of the Institution during the present year, has been already refer- 

 red to with regret^ — regret much the greater because ill-health has 

 been the cause. He has now held the office two years, the term 



