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nomena ; Mr. Barnett. On an Improved Piston for Steam or other Engines ; 

 Mr. J. H. Martin, Swansea. 



August 30. Excursion of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society to Boscawen-un ; Careg Tol ; Crous-an-Wra ; Sennen Church ; The 

 Holed Stone at Mayon ; A Barrow at Pedn-men-du ; Land's End ; Treryn 

 Castle ; St. Biiryan Church ; The Merry Maidens, and the Pipers ; and a 

 remarkable cave near Trewoof . Memoranda for this Excursion were published 

 in the Cornish Telegraph of August 25. 



August 31. Excursion by members and friends of the Eoyal Institution 

 of Cornwall and of the Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society to Dolcoath Mine 

 and Carn Brea. (See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. XI, 

 and 52nd Annual Report). Preparatory Notices of Dolcoath and Carn Brea 

 were published in the Cornwall Gazette of August 28th. 



August. The Leisure Hour publishes an article by Mr, S. R. Pattison, 

 F.G.S , on "Devonshire Geology." 



September 2. West Briton records effectual means adopted by Mr. Bevan, 

 of Boskenna, for preservation of an ancient cross near his mansion. 



September 3. IVestern Morning News publishes a letter by "William 

 ■Beale," giving Gaelic etymologies .of local names in East Cornwall. 



September 9. fVest Briton records that Dosmary Pool, on the Moors 

 between Bodmin and Launceston, was perfectly dry. 



September 9. West Briton publishes an article signed " Inquirer," on 

 the origin of the word " Liskeard," and of the names of places in the vicinity 

 of that town. Other communications, on this and similar subjects, were 

 published in the West Briton of the following dates : — 



September 23. Signed " H," and dated at " Liscarraig." 



September 30. Signed " Beta." 



Sejptember 30, October 14 and^l, November 11, and December 23. 

 Signed " Ap Kedna." 



October 7. Signed " B," dated at Liskeard. 



October 28. Signed E. A. S., Llanstadwell, South Wales. 



October 28, and December 9. Eev. Dr. Bannister. 



November 25. Signed " Sean Bhen Voc." 



September 15. At a Council Meeting of the Penzance Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society, there was presented a document of 1776, in which 

 Market-jew Street, Penzance, is mentioned as " Street-Mehal," or "Michael 

 Street." Attention was called to a recent wilful destruction of Trewhella 

 Cross, in St. Hilary, and it was mentioned that Mr. Hawkins, the proprietor, 

 was willing to assist the Society in prosecuting, if the offender could be 

 discovered. 



September 16. West Briton publishes a description of Chapel Carn Bre, 

 in the parish of St. Just in Penwith. 



