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derived from sale of our Journals and Fauna, £15 lis. lOd., 

 is still satisfactory. The editorial charge is reduced by £10, 

 and will hereafter be extinguished, through the kindness 

 of Mr. H. M. Whitley, who has undertaken to perform 

 this work without remuneration, in order that two numbers of 

 the Journal may again be issued, instead of one only in the year. 

 The importance of this extension of the chief means of commun- 

 ication among our members, and with the public, has been set 

 forth in a paper circulated recently by your Council. For the 

 purpose of meeting the outlay needed in this and other respects 

 it was calculated that about £75 was more immediately 

 required, and more than that sum has been contributed. 



The admissions to the Miiseum during the year were as 



follows : 



Admitted free 2,094 



,, by ticket 96 



,, by payment, 6d 226 



2,416 



Amongst various interesting donations we are bound to 

 notice a large collection of foreign insects, presented by the 

 representatives of the late Mr. Charles Fox, one of our most 

 esteemed friends. Mr. Collins also contributed many valuable 

 mineral specimens. 



The Journal has very well maintained its character in all 

 respects ; but the completion of the catalogue of our mineral 

 collection is its distinctive feature. For this the Society is 

 indebted to Mr. Collins, and, coupled with the perfect arrange- 

 ment of the series of specimens, which is equally his work, it 

 constitutes an addition of the utmost value to the usefulness, for 

 purposes of study, of the great store of illustrations of the 

 metalliferous productions of Cornwall and elsewhere accumulated 

 in our cases. 



Your Council must here express their sense of the loss 

 sustained by this Institution through the departure of Mr. Collins, 

 and they most thankfully acknowledge the services he rendered 

 it in many ways. The Journal just published contains the results 

 of his prolonged and elaborate inquiries on the "Geological 

 Ao'e of Central and West Cornwall." The views advanced 



