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May 25 ; June 1 and 8. Cornish Telegraph publishes letters on " The 

 Submarine Forest of Mount's Bay." 



May 26. West Briton contains a letter, by the late Bev. F. V. J. 

 Arundell, on the inscription over the porch of St. Austell church. 



May 26. IVest Briton publishes a letter, signed " G," urging the neces- 

 sity of protecting Tintagel Castle against danger from blasting operations. 



3'Iay 26. West Briton publishes a letter, signed " Tre," on " Eemarkable 

 Meteors," citing a description, by Walter Moyle, of Bake, of a meteor seen 

 on the 19th of March, 1718—9. 



June 8. Cornish Telegraph publishes a communication on the question : 

 " Where was ancient bronze made— in Phoenicia or in Cornwall?" 



June 9. Nature publishes a letter from " E. H. W. Dunkin," Greenwich, 

 on the " Anticipated Destruction of the Cheesewring." 



June 9. West Briton publishes communications on " The Lionesse, the 

 lost portion of Cornwall," by "Observer"; "Tintagel," by "Mot"; and 

 " Obsolete Words," by " T. « *." 



June 14. Western Morning Neios records a capture, near the Gear 

 Rocks, Mount's Bay, of the " Broad-headed Gazer," and of the Black Fish 

 {Centrolophus pompilus.) 



June 16. ^esf Briioji publishes " An Antiquarian Eamble, No. 7," by 

 S. J. Wills, descriptive of Antiquities on Tregoning Hill. 



June 22. Cornish Telegraph records that at a recent meeting of the 

 Council of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, the 

 Secretary reported the existence, near the Hangman Barrow, between Eedruth 

 and Crowan, of a sculptured and inscribed stone, and of remains of a large 

 barrow and kist. 



June 29. Cornish Telegraph publishes an Article, by " Old Celt," on 

 " Ancient Midsummer Customs." 



July 2. Cornioall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher Cooke," 

 concerning the Eeverend Eichard Polwhele and his published works. 



July 6. Cornish Telegj-aph publishes a letter on "Inscribed Stones," with 

 especial reference to the stone in St. Hilary Churchyard ; and also a letter 

 from " E. H. W. Dunkin," making inquiry concerning an "Incised Stone at 

 Treryn, St. Levan." 



July 26. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Literature, and Art. Ninth Annual Meeting, at Devonport ; Mr. J. A. Froude, 

 President. The following papers were read : — The probable inapplicability 

 of the rifle principle for vertical or mortar fire, and a suggestion of another 

 method ; Dr. E. W, WooUcombe. The Life and Writings of Joseph us 

 Iscanus, the Swan of Isca ; Sir John Bowring, LL.D., F.E.S. Instinct and 

 Season ; Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, M.A. On Eainfall ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S. , 

 F.G.S. The Stalk-eyed Crustacea of Devon, and the Histology of their 

 Shells ; Mr. Parfitt. On two One-eyed Peoples of the Olden World, namely, 

 the Arimaspians and the Cyclopes ; Eev. B. H. Cooper, B.A. The Occur- 

 rence of Fossils at Smugglers' Cove, Torquay; Mr. E. Tawney, FGS. The 

 Degeneration of our Sea Fisheries; Mr. J. N. Hoarder, F.C.S. The 

 Abnormal Structure of Ferns ; Mr. T. M. Hall, F.G.S. On some curious 

 stones at Swincombe, probably connected with ancient mining on Dartmoor; 

 Mr. P. F. S. Amery. Notes on the Prse-Historic Archfeology of East Devon, 

 No. 3 ; Eev. E. Kirwan, M.A., F.E.S.L. Notes on Vessels formed of Bovey 

 Lignite, and of Kimmeridge Coal ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., F.G.S. Annual 



