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The Meteorological Observations, extending over a long period, 

 have been daily continued by your Curator, and now form an 

 unbroken series of recorded facts, from which all the main elements 

 of the climate may be deduced. 



For some time past it has been found necessary to issue only 

 one number of our Journal a year ; we are thus prevented from 

 publishing at length many valuable communications with which 

 we are favoured. We trust, however, that this restriction is but 

 a temporary one, and that the increase in our members will shortly 

 enable us to resume the issue of two numbers yearly. 



At our last Annual Meeting the Council were instructed to 

 take such steps as they might deem desirable for rendering avail- 

 able to the general purposes of the Institution the rooms about 

 to be vacated by the Cornwall County Library. This duty was 

 undertaken by a sub-committee, under whose superintendence 

 folding doors have been substituted for the partition wall, a 

 second stove has been procured, gas pendents have been in- 

 troduced, and shelves have been prepared for receiving many of 

 the books which have been hitherto inconveniently lodged in the 

 Lecture Room. These alterations, which will supply every accom- 

 modation necessary, as well for ordinary requirements as for general 

 meetings, have been effected without drawing deeply on the funds 

 of the Institution. 



The removal of the Library has diminished our income by 

 twenty pounds a year, and has deprived our Curator of his salary 

 as Librarian ; it has therefore become necessary to increase his 

 income from the funds of the Institution. 



With this increased expenditure to meet, it will be satisfactory 

 for you to know that the balance ^i the hands of the Treasurer 

 has increased from £76. 12s. 2d., at the commencement of the 

 financial year, to £\Q'l. 15s. 8d., at its close; and that six new 

 subscribers have been elected during that time. On the other 

 hand, a considerable sum will be required to meet the alterations 

 of the room, and there stiU remains a mortgage debt of about 

 £150. 



Since our last Annual Meeting, the Council of His Eoyal High- 

 ness the Prince of Wales have courteously invited your officers 

 to meet an eminent engineer at the Cheesewring, and to suggest 

 means for its preservation. To these communications they have 

 replied, that AAdien they had brought the perilous condition of that 

 remarkable natural curiosity under consideration of the proper 

 authorities of the Duchy and of their competent surveyors, they 

 believed they had fulfilled their duty to the County. 



One of the objects brought under notice during our late 

 excursion, was the inscribed stone mentioned by Carew, Borlase, 



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