IX 



ROYAL mSTITUTIOlN' OF CORJfWALL. 



SPEING MEETING, 



1870. 



The Institution held its Spring Meeting on Tuesday, the 17th 

 of May, in the Council Chamber of the Truro Town Hall. The 

 Chair was occupied by the President, Mr. W. Jory Kenwood^ 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. ; and there were also present, besides many 

 ladies : — Mr. Smirke, V.W., a Vice-President ; Dr. Jago and ]\Ir. 

 Whitley, Secretaries ; Mr. H. M. Whitley, Assistant Secretary ; 

 Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer; Dr. Barham, Rev. J. R. Cornish, Mr. 

 Alexander Paull, Mr. G. F. Remfry, and Rev. H. S. Slight, 

 Members of the Council ; and Mr. Vacy Ash, Rev. Dr. Bannister, 

 Mr. J. G. Chilcott, Mr. G. Clyma (Mayor of Truro), Mr. J. H. 

 Colhns, F.G.S., Mr. T. S. Cragoe, Mr. R. W. Fox, F.R.S., Mr. 

 J. B. Job, Mr. J. R. Paull, Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S., Mr. 

 H. 0. Remfry, Mr. E. Sharp, jun., Mr. Sheriff, Mr. Snell, Mr. 

 A. E. Tweedy, and Capt. Williams, St. Austell. 



The President delivered the-following Address : — 



Of the duties it has been your pleasure to assign me the first 

 and most painful is to enumerate our losses during the past twelve 

 months. 



Miss Emily Stackhouse enriched our Journal,'^ from time to 

 time, with admirable contributions relating to a branch of science 

 seldom treated of in its pages, but which she had long studied 

 with singular zeal and success. 



Major John Solomon Bickford (son of Mr. William Bickford t 



* Journal of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, Vol. I (No. Ill), p. 58 • 

 Vol. II (No. Ill), p. 2|^. 



t Mr. William Bickford, inventor of the Safety -fuse, and author of "An 

 Appeal to practical Miners on the Utility and general advantages of the 

 Miners' Safety-rod, for blasting rocks, (&c." was born at Ilsington, near 

 Ashburton, 16th of May, 1774, and died at Tuckingmill, 3rd of October, 1834. 



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