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Rectory, Peter Tavy, recording the appearance of a very bright meteor, near 

 the Pole Star, at about 2h. 40m. p m., and under a brilliant sun. 



September 7. Cornish Telegraph contains a paragraph, from Mr. T. Q. 

 Couch, on the present condition of the Cheesewring. 



September 8. Western Morning News states that on the previous day, 

 there was captured a rare fish, apparently a Spinous Shark, in Mount's Bay. 



September 9. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 38th Annual Exhi- 

 bition ; Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., presiding. On the 10th Sept a lecture 

 was given by Mr. E. B. Tylor, President of the Ethnological Society, on 

 *' The relation of primitive to modern civilization." Mr. Charles Fox presided. 



September 12. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devonshire. Annual 

 Meeting at Falmouth ; Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P , presiding. The following 

 papers were read :— On a patent Pulverizer; Mr Dingey, Truro. On 

 Sturgeon's patent Ore Crusher ; Mr. Chatwood, London. Mr. Husband, of 

 Hayle, described his patent Pneumatic Stamps. 



September 14, and following days. 40th Annual Meeting of the British 

 Association, at Liverpool ; President, Professor Huxley. Among the papers 

 read were the following : Sixth Report of the Committee for the Exploration 

 of Kent's Cavern ; Mr. VV. Pengelly. The Modern and Ancient Beaches of 

 Portland ; Mr W Pengelly Note on Anthotites, discovered by Mr. C. W. 

 Peach ; Mr. W. Carruthers. On an Ebalia, new to the British List ; Mr. 

 C. W. Peach. 



September 15, and October 6. West Briton publishes letters, signed 

 (I Tre," on " Hills and Views in Cornwall." 



September 17. Corniuall Gazette records the recent capture of a Torpedo, 

 or Electric Ray, in a ground seine at Mevagissey. 



Sejitember 22. West Briton publishes a letter, signed " S.," on " Hills 

 and Views in Cornwall " 



October 11. Western Morning News publishes an Article descriptive of 

 Tintagel Church. 



October 12. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice (from the Athenceum) 

 of " Traditions and Hearth-side Sto^s of West Cornwall." 



October 13. West Briton publishes an Article on " The Cheesewring," 

 including extracted notes from Messrs. Freeman and Sons, and Mr. T. Q. 

 Couch. Also a letter signed " ^," on " The Institutions of Cornwall." 



October 14. At a meeting of the Plymouth Institution, Mr. Spence Bate, 

 F.R.S., read a paper on " Prjehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor." 



October 21. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Annual Meeting at 

 Penzance; Mr. H Seymour Tremenheere, P.G S., President. The following 

 were among the papers read : — On Chromic Iron in Serpentine from the 

 Lizard ; Mr. Richard Pearce, Swansea. On the occurrence of a granite 

 boulder, 60 fathoms deep, in the killas of Halamanning Mine ; Mr. Richard 

 James, St. Ives. Mr T. Cornish exhibited Hazel Nuts and Bivalve Shells 

 of existing local species, found in streaming, in the valley between Marazion 

 and Hayle, at a depth of about 18 feet. Mr. Warrington Smyth gave an 

 account of gold-mining operations in Merionethshire. 



October 22. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from " Christopher 

 Cooke," concerning " The Wringcheese " ; urging " Cornubians, One and 

 All " to endeavour to prevent its destruction. 



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