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Unbiimt Brick of Sesostris, stamped with his 



cartouche, from the Memnoniiim, Thebes . . Mr. G. F. Eemfry, Truro. 



Specimen of Stone from the royal quarries 

 under Jerusalem, of which Solomon is said 

 to have built the Temple Ditto. 



Fossils Ditto. 



Printed Paper for Blind Eeaders, from Mrs. 



Thompson's Syrian School, Beirut Ditto. 



COKTEIBUTIONS FOR THE ALBUM. 



A coloured drawing of a variety of Galanthus 

 nivalis, found at Altarnun, Cornwall, March, 

 1870 * From Miss Tripp, Altarnun. 



Etchings : — f "1 



1. Deer's-Horn Pick, found in the Car- 



non Stream Works 



2. The (Penryn) Mayor's Cup. ....... I From Miss Annie Shilson, 



3. Menacuddle Well, St. Austell [ Tremough. 



4. Seuar Cromleh ; Lanyon Cromleh ; 



Men-an-Tol ; Chun Cromleh; and 

 Molfra Cromleh ^ 



* Accompanying this Contribution was the following note: "Enclosed 

 is a sketch, made by Miss Tripp, of a variety of the Snowdrop found this 

 year by her for the first time ; she ventures to offer it to the portfolio of the 

 Eoyal Institution, as she has been told that a variety of the Snowdrop is 

 extremely rare. If such things are acceptable, it will give Miss Tripp great 

 pleasure to send from time to time any other that may come in her way — 

 either drawings of them or specimens — as they will be much more useful in 

 a public than in a private collection." 



The peculiarities of this specimen are : On the three outer petals is a 

 notch-shaped green spot, somewhat fainter than that on the inner, but re- 

 sembling it ; and the seedvessel and stem are of a yellower shade of green 

 than in the ordinary variety. 



f Miss Shilson writes as follows : " Miss Shilson forwards to Mr. Whitley 

 a donation to the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, of four of her sketches 

 which she has just had printed. Of the " Deer's Horn Pick" and " Mayor's 

 Cup " she has written and enclosed an account ; " Menacuddle Well " is one 

 of the oldest Baptistery Chapels ; and of the fourth sketch (Cromlehs and 

 Men-an-tol) a full description will be found in Borlase's Antiquities of Corn- 

 wall." 



" Deee's Horn Pick. This valuable relic, the property of E. W. Fox, 

 Esq., was found lying on a bed of tin, between 30 and 40 feet below the 

 sm'face, in the Carnon Stream Works, at the head of Eestronguet Creek,, 

 near Devoran, Cornwall, about 70 years ago. A human skull, stags' horns 

 (one of which measured three feet), skulls and other bones of various 

 animals, together with a wooden shovel, around which a piece of decayed 

 string still remained tied, were also found there at a great depth ; thus 

 rendering it apparent that this bed of ore was known and worked at a very 

 early period. The pebbles from which the metal was extracted, were em- 

 bedded about 36 feet below the surface, in a compound of marl and marine 



