218 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



September 18. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from "Christopher 

 Cooke," concerning the Truro Grammar School. Also a letter signed " P," 

 St. Stephens in Branwell, concerning the di'aining of Dosmary Pool. 



September 18. Death of Henry Phillpotts, 60th Bishop of Exeter, in 

 the 93rd year of his age and the 38th of his episcopate. 



September 20. Western Morning Neivs publishes a letter signed " In- 

 quirer," Liskeard, on " Herles, Hurlers, Circles, &c." 



September 30. West Briton publishes " An Antiquarian Ramble, de- 

 scriptive of Hangman Barrow," in the parish of Crowan ; from S. J. Wills, 

 Crown Town, Sithney. 



October 4. Death of Mr. William Carne, of Falmouth. 



October!. f-Fest Brifon publishes a letter signed " Eobertus," on "The 

 Lost Church found " ; urging the duty of preserving the remains of Piran 

 Old Church and of Perran Round. 



October 11. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter entitled " A Plea for 

 the preservation of Cornish Antiquities," from "E. H. W.Dunkin," Greenwich. 



October 14 and 21. West Briton records the capture of Locusts {Locusta 

 migratoria) at St. Austell, Truro, Marazion, Wendi'on, and at Killigarth in 

 the parish of Talland. 



October 22. Annual Meeting of the Penzance Natural History and An- 

 tiquarian Society ; Mr. D. P. Le Grice presiding. Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., 

 elected President for the ensuing year; and Messrs. J. J. A. Boase, E. H. 

 Rodd, J. Ralfs, W. C. Borlase, and D B. Bedford, Vice-presidents. ]\Ii-. J. T. 

 Blight, F.S.A., described some Crosses discovered since his books on the 

 Ancient Crosses of Cornwall were published. On one of them, found 

 bridging a stream at Trevear Bottom, Sennen, was represented a Calvar}', the 

 only instance of the kind yet observed by him among the Crosses of 

 Cornwall. He also mentioned a remarkable Granite Cross, with rich symbols 

 and ornamentation, which he had seen in a garden at Merthyr Uny, Wendron. 



November 3. Cornish Telegraph publishes a communication from 

 " William Bottrell," entitled " Our District ; its former isolation, its people, 

 and its traditions." 



November 4. " A Young Cornubian," writing to the West Briton from 

 St. Day, seeks information on the origin of the Cornish Arms and of the 

 motto " One and All." 



November 5. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Annual Meeting 

 at Penzance ; Mr. H. Seymour Tremenheere, President. The following 

 were among the Papers received : — On Organic Remains in Cornwall ; from 

 Mr. C. W. Peach, Edinburgh. The Geology of Lundy Island ; ili-. Whitley. 

 On Tidal Waves and Earthquakes ; Mr. Richard Edmonds, Plymouth. On 

 the discovery of Gold in Sutherland ; Mr. Warrington Smyth. On Micro- 

 scopic Mineralogy and Geology ; Mi-. W. Vivian, South Wales. 



