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Oysters, in considerable abundance, are occasionally exported 

 from certain parts of Falmouth harbour ; but the extent of this 

 traffic, during the past year, I have failed to learn. 



The brocoli and potatoes forwarded from West Cornwall by 

 railway have been : — 



It has been calculated by experienced market-gardeners that 

 at least one thousand pounds' worth of Brocoli was destroyed by 

 ■the frosts and snows of the last winter. Of the shipments from 

 Hayle and Penzance I have obtained no accounts. 



Plants hitherto unknown in Cornwall have, within the past 

 year, been discovered in West Penwith ; but the discoverer declines 

 to announce his discovery. 



The quantities of earthy and metallic minerals, afforded by 

 our quarries and mines, are so accurately and so regularly ascer- 

 tained by Mr. Hunt t that it would be mere supererogation, on my 

 part, to speak of them. 



The Meeting of the British Association at Exeter was attended 

 by two of our members ; of whom one was Vice-President of the 

 general body, and the other served on the committee of the 

 Geological Section ; but no paper, from either of them, appears 

 amongst the Reports and Proceedings. So far as I know, the only 

 visitor who extended his journey to Cornwall was the Prussian 

 gentleman who joined our excursion to Dolcoath and Carn Br6. 

 Mr. Peach, however, supplied descriptions of the fossils he, last year, 

 detected in specimens obtained by Dr. Boase from the Lizard 

 district in 1832;:]: as well as accounts of his own more recent 

 discoveries in the same neighbourhood. || 



As we considered, twelve months ago, the proportion of copper 



* For these particulars, and for those in the preceding page concern- 

 ing the mackerel fishery, I am indebted to Mr. J. D. Sheriff, C.E., Engineer 

 of the Cornwall and West Cornwall Eailways. 



The Western Morning News has lately published (17th March, 29th 

 March, and 21st April, 1870) several admirable articles on the Natural History 

 of the Mackerel and on the Mackerel Fishery, by Mr. Bettany of Penzance. 



f Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (Mineral Statistics), 

 1869. 



+ Cornwall Geol. Trans., IV, p. 324. 



II Reports of the British Association, XXXIX (1869), Part ii, p. 99. 



