44 Humerus of a great rorqual whale. 



it some value as a relic of the past, the waves then as now may- 

 have dashed against these silurian cliffs in the little Veryan cove, 

 and storms raged in Gerrans Bay in which this creature sported, 

 but 



" No ship went over the waters then, 



No ship with oar or sail, 

 But the wastes of the sea were habited, 

 By the Dragon and the Whale." 



It is but an old bone, and it is easier to be jubilant than 

 humorous over it, it was rather a great find and is certainly a 

 Cornish bone, and I wish our Society, a Society which sees 



"Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

 Sermons in stones, and good in everything," 



to accept it, feeling sure if there is any symmetry in its outline, 

 or elegance in its form, it will be here recognised, and it may 

 have its use, in the far future, when the donor and the imperfect 

 history he has attempted to attach to it this day, are both alike 

 forgotten, maybe, some antiquarian searching the room upstairs 

 may rake it out of a musty corner, and find in it a ''thing of 

 beauty and a joy for ever." 



