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Industrial Exhibitions in Devonshire ; Mr. J. Phillips. On some Fossil 

 Spicula of Sponges from Haldon and Blackdown ; Mr. E. Parfitt. The 

 Literature of the Bone Caverns, near Yealmpton ; and the Ash Hole and 

 Bench Bone Caverns at Brixham ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.K.S , F.G.S. On 

 Prison Discipline ; Dr. Row. The Modern and Ancient Beaches at Portland ; 

 Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



July 27. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice, by Mr. W C. Borlase, 

 of " Hawken's King of the Herrings " ; and a description of " The Eagle's 

 Nest," Zennor, with notices of the Zennor Logan-rock, the Giant's Snuff-box, 

 the Giant's Quoit, and the Twin Logan-Eocks, on Tregarthen Hill. Also, a 

 letter, from Mr. Eichard Edmonds, on Inscribed Stones and Cliff Castles. 



August 1, Western Morning News publishes an account of an ancient 

 vault in Catherine-street, Plymouth. 



August 6. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from Mr. John Burton, 

 Falmouth, on "Eoman Eemains in Cornwall." Also a letter from " Chris- 

 topher Cooke," concerning antiquities near " The Land's End." 



August 6. The Builder publishes a letter from " John Freeman and 

 Sons," entitled " Safety of the Cheesewring " 



' August 8 and 9. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Excursion to Tintagel, 

 (fee, {see Journal of the Royal Institiition of Cornumll, No. XII, and 53?'d 

 Annual Report. A programme, with notices of objects proposed to be visited, 

 was published in the Cormoall Gazette, of July 30th. 



August 13. The Builder contains a letter from " H. B. W." on the 

 present condition of the Cheesewring. 



August 16. Western Morning Neivs records the recent capture of a 

 Bogue {Sparus hoops) near the Deadman, in a ground seine belonging to Mr. 

 Matthias Dunn, of Mevagissey. 



August 17. Cornish Telegraph publishes " An Excursion to Chapel Uny 

 WeU, with a Legend of the Changeling of Brea." 



August 24. Cornish Telegraph publishes " Traditions of St. Levan," by 

 " Old Celt." 



August 24. Cornish Telegraph publishes, in the Programme of an 

 intended Excursion by the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society, notices of Antiquities, &c., in Sancreed, Baryan, and St. Levan. 



August 27. Cormoall Gazette records the recent capture of a Canadian 

 Beetle (Mohammus Dentator of Fabricius), at Mevagissey. It was forwarded 

 by Mr. F. Michell to the London Entomological Society, and the Secretary 

 states, " that it is an undoubtedly imported specimen, it being a native of 

 Canada and the Northern States of the Union." 



Aupust 29. Western Morning Neius publishes a letter from Eev. H. 

 Anstey, St. Wendron Vicarage, recording the appearance, in his garden, of a 

 specimen of the scarce " Spotted Hawk-Moth (Deilephila galii") 



August 31. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter, signed G. F. G., con- 

 cerning an Inscribed Stone formerly at Chapel Curnow, St. Levan. 



September 1. West Briton publishes a letter, signed " A Lover of 

 Cornish Scenery," on " Hills and Views in Cornwall." It gives lists of some 

 of the highest hills in the several districts of Liskeard, Camelford, St. 

 Austell and Bodmin, Truro, Camborne and Redruth, Falmouth and 

 Helston, and Land's End ; and the views to be seen from them. 



September 1. Western Morning News publishes a letter, signed T. G., 



