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Lubbock's appeal on the late destruction of the great Tol-maen, in Cornwall, 

 the Comieil of the Ethnological Society have appointed a Committee to in- 

 vestigate the pre-historic monuments of these Islands, and the measm'es to be 

 taken for their preservation." 



April 15. West Briton publishes a Letter from " S. Trevail," Luxulyan, 

 urging the preservation of the " logging rock," at Tregarden Down, in the 

 parish of Luxulyan. 



April 22. West Briton published a letter signed " Cornubiensis," con- 

 cerning the Carlyon pedigree and the connection between the Seymour, 

 Tredenham, and Scobell families. 



April 22. Mr. T. Q. Couch publishes in the West Briton a letter on 

 " The Preservation of our Antiquities." In it he states : " In my own 

 neighbourhood, when an antiquity has been threatened, I have been able to 

 save it by merely acquainting the owner or the steward of the fact. In this 

 way the curious circles at Caerwen, in Blisland, and the Eomano-British 

 stone at Well-town, in Cardinham, were saved. The latter is now restored 

 by Mr. Eobartes to its original position, and surrounded by rails. I know 

 that some of our wayside crosses have fallen at the requirement of late 

 highway improvements. It is desirable that these and similar objects should 

 stand on their original sites, but it is better that they should be removed to 

 some near place of safety than utterly destroyed. 



April 30. Death of Sir Arthur William Buller, M.P. for Liskeard, 

 aged 61. 



May 6. West Briton publishes a letter signed " Beta," on the " Preser- 

 vation of Antiquities." It suggests that in Cornwall, " so parcelled out into 

 parishes, unions, &c., there could be no very great difficulty in obtaining in- 

 formation of the localities, and descriptions of every antiquity or interesting 

 natural object existing at the present time." By this means, a map might 

 eventually be constructed, on which ait the antiquities of the county might 

 be laid down in their true positions; "and by engaging and interesting a 

 number of persons in different parts of the county, a sort of guardianship 

 or association for the protection of such valuable objects would be established." 



May 6. Annual Meeting of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and 

 Cornwall Natural History Society; Mr. Spence Bate presiding. The following 

 Papers were read : On the occurrence of some rare plants near Plymouth ; 

 Mr. T. R. A. Briggs. On the influence whch temperature has on the rate of 

 mortality in Plymouth ; Dr. Albert Kingston. 



May 13. West Briton publishes a letter signed " Curiosus," on " An- 

 tiquity Destruction." The writer suggests that, \>j communication with 

 clergymen, registers ^nd charts of antiquities and other objects of interest 

 in the several parishes in Cornwall might be prepared, and these being 

 printed for circulation or sale, would be a sort of check on the proceedings 

 of future intending destructionists. 



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