216 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



Juhj 28. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Meeting 

 of Council. Among the reported presents were : — A quantity of dust (probably 

 organic) dredged at above 1100 fathoms in the Atlantic by H.M.S. Porcupine ; 

 from Mr. Jonathan Couch, F.S.A. Querns and Eubbers, from Bollowal, in 

 St. Just ; Mr. Alfred Chenhalls. Two balls, resembling cannon-balls, one an 

 amalgam of some sort, the other iron, found at Lanjisal Cove ; Mr. John 

 Symons. A Spindlewhorl, found at Zennor ; Mr. Henry NichoUs. 



July 29. West Briton publishes an account of " Gulval Carn," by 

 " Tre." 



August 10. Western Morning News publishes an account of the Coffin 

 and Mummy presented by H.E.H. the Prince of Wales to the Museum of the 

 Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. 



August 12. West Briton publishes a letter on " Carn Marth," by " Tre." 



August 18, and folloiving days. Annual Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion, at Exeter ; President, Professor Stokes. Among the Papers read were 

 the following : — On the Granite of the northernly and easternly sides of Dart- 

 moor ; Mr. G. W. Ormerod. On the Source of the Miocene Clays of Bovey 

 Tracey ; Mr. W. Pengelly. On Brachiopoda from the pebble-bed of Budleigh 

 Salterton ; Mr. Davidson. On the Devonian Group considered geologically 

 and geographically ; Mr. Godwin- Austen. Fifth Eeport of the Committee for 

 the exploration of Kent's Cavern ; Mr. W. Pengelly. On the alleged occur- 

 rence of Hippopotamus major and Machairodus latidens in Kent's Cavern ; 

 Mr. W. Pengelly. Eainfall in the Western Counties ; Mr. G. J. Symons. 

 The occurrence of Terra Cotta Clay at Watcombe,, Torquay ; Mr. E. Ether- 

 idge. On Chalk Flints and Flakes in Devon and Cornwall ; Mr, N Whitley. 

 Discovery of Organic Eemains in the rocks between the Nare Head and 

 Porthalla Cove, Cornwall ; Mr. C. W. Peach. The Salmon Elvers of Devon 

 and Cornwall ; Mr. Frank Buckland. Marine Fauna and Flora of Devon 

 and Cornwall ; Mr. Spence Bate, F.E S. Flint Flakes ; method of forming 

 those iised by inhabitants of Devon in pra3-historic times ; Mr. T M Hall, 

 F.G.S. Whale Eemains at Babbicombe ; Mr. W. Pengelly, On a Crannoge, 

 or Stockaded Island, in Llangorse Lake, near Brecon ; Eev. E. N. Dumbleton, 

 M.A., vicar of St. Paul's, Truro. 



August 19. West Briton publishes an account of Carn Galva, in the 

 parish of Zennor; by "Tre." 



August 27. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 37th Annual Ex- 

 hibition ; Mr. Warrington Smyth presiding. Eev. Dr. Bannister delivered 

 a Lecture on " Cornish Names." 



August 30. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devonshire. Annual 

 Meeting at Falmouth ; Mr. A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P., presiding. The 

 following Papers were read : — On the Mineral Productions of Cornwall and 

 Devonshire; Mr. E. Hunt, F.E.S. Account of an Excursion bytheEedruth 

 and Carharrack Class ; Mr. A. K. Barnett. On a Ventilating Air-pump for 

 Mines ; Mr. S. Oke. On Mineral Veins ; Mr. B. Kitto. On Mineral Phe- 



