CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 309 



January 27. West Briton publishes a paper signed " Penwith," entitled 

 " Description of Two Domestic Articles formerly used in Cornwall, viz., the 

 Chill and the Wooden Tinder Box." Also an abstract of an article in Land 

 and Water, on " The Decline of Cornish Fisheries." 



February 2. Cornish Telegrai^h publishes a letter from " E. H. "W. 

 Dunkin," Greenwich, on " A Canal Scheme of 1796," from Hayle to Helford. 



February 2. Cornish Telegraph publishes, among its " Archaeological 

 Notes," by " E. H. W. D.," a notice of Beehive Dwellings (similar to those in 

 Cornwall), discovered at Ardfinran, near Tipperary. 



February 3. West Briton publishes " An Antiquarian Eamble, No. 4," 

 by " S. J. Wills," having reference to antiquities on Prospidnick Hill ; and 

 also a letter signed " Ap Kedna," concerning the " Men-amber," " Giant's 

 Quoit," and " Long-Stone." 



February 5. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from "Christopher 

 Cooke," concerning the gold cup found on the Duchy Manor of Rillaton in 1867. 



February 9. Cornish Telegraph publishes an Article from the Globe on 

 " Penzance." 



February 12. Cornwall Gazette notices an inscription on the church 

 tower of St. Goran : " 166 EAB EK IM." 



February 17. West Briton publishes a letter from " E. H. W. Dunkin," 

 Greenwich, " On the Giant's Quoit on Prospidnick Hill." 



February 24. West Briton contains a memoir of the lately deceased 

 Major Bickford, of Tuckingmill. 



February 24. West Briton publishes a letter signed " W. B.," on 

 " Cornish Names." 



March 2, and April 6. Cornish Telegraph publishes, among its " Archae- 

 ological Notes," notices of Gunwalloe and its Church. 



March 12. Cormoall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher 

 Cooke," London, on " Cornish Institutions." 



March 17. West Briton publishes a letter from " Delta," on " A sup- 

 posed Cromlech " on Prospidnick Hill. 



March 17, 29 ; and April 21. Western Morning Nevjs publishes Articles 

 on " Cornish Fisheries — The Mackerel." 



March 24. Death of Sir William Williams, Bart., of TreguUow. 



March 30. Cornish Telegraph contains a notice of the Family of 

 Williams, of Gwennap. 



April. The Reliquary, Quarterly Archmological Journal and Review, 

 contains a paper entitled " Notes on the discovery of a Kistvaen on Tre- 

 dinney Hill, near the Land's End ; " by E. H. W. Dunkin. 



April 6. Cornish Telegraph quotes from the Builder an account of the 

 •' Construction of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse." 



April 7. West Briton publishes a letter, signed " Tre," on " Cornish 

 Names and Provincial Words." 



April 9 and 2B/. Cornwall Gazette publishes Articles on " The Lunatic 

 Asylum," in continuation of a series of papers on " Our County Establish- 

 ments." 



April 13. Death of Mr. Jonathan Couch, F.L.S., Corr. Mem. Z.S., &c., 

 at Polperro, in the 82nd year of his age. 



