32 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Oaer Pensauelcost, a long lost Unromanised British 



Metropolis ... ... ... ... By the Author. 



The Hurlers and Trethevy Stone, by C. W. Dymond Fi-om the Author. 

 The Cape Catalogue ... ... ... From the Eoyal Observa- 



tory Cape of Good Hope. 

 Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical 



Society ... ... ... ... From the Society. 



The report was adopted unanimously, on the motion of Mr. 

 A. C. Willyams, seconded by Mr. Sharp. 



Dr. Barham remarked that whatever gain they had made 

 by Lord Mount Edgcumbe's presidency, they could not but 

 regret the retirement of the Lord Bishop of Truro. (Applause), 

 His lordship had been a most valuable and indefatigable 

 president, and had introduced them to a sphere of usefulness 

 which they could not have followed half as well under any 

 other chief. He might now be supposed to have retired from 

 the chair, and to have merely taken the place of their new 

 president, the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. 



His Lordship said he could only look back upon the two 

 years for which he had occupied the chair with shame. He 

 could not in any way say that he had done his best, but he had 

 wished to do his best, and on many occasions when he had 

 been desirous of being more attentive to the Institution, and of 

 attending the meetings, it had been impossible for him to do so. 

 He was persuaded that these institutions, — and he knew of no 

 institution of which it might be more truly said than that one, 

 wielded an extremely important power, and he desired to see them 

 exercising still more power than they had done of late. They 

 were exceedingly cultivating, they induced numbers of people 

 to feel a zeal and interest in scientific pursuits, and to put their 

 observations on record, and they tended to promote a friendly 

 feeling among such people. Referring to the visit to Looe, his 

 Lordship said the Mayor and everybovdy vied with one another 

 in making the society welcome, and received with great satis- 

 faction the assurances from them of their desire to be useful to 

 the whole county. His two years of office had passed quickly 

 away, and certainly he had nothing to regret but that he could 

 not be more at the service of the Institution. It was very 

 satisfactory to know — though that had nothing to do with him — 



