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our shelves, if they are not on those of the County Library. 

 As neither society could well afford to purchase duplicates, each 

 of them may very well be the complement of the other. 

 Pamphlets and original documents are especially appropriate 

 here, and all donations of this kind, or of the books referred to, 

 will be most welcome. No arrangement has yet been made for 

 any course of scientific instruction here during the coming 

 winter; but there is reason to hope that Mr. Beringer, the 

 lecturer to the Miners' Association, and Mr. CoUins's successor 

 as county analyst, will be able to devote one day in the week to 

 a class, with laboratory practice, in inorganic chemistry. Your 

 council have always felt very strongly the importance of the 

 means of education possessed by the Institution, and the duty of 

 turning them to account as far as possible ; and they believe 

 that the members would gladly co-operate for this increase of 

 facilities and accommodation for study. It may come to be 

 considered whether such an extension may be obtained by 

 purchase of the freehold between the Museum and Pydar Street; 

 and building, by aid of grants from the Science and Art 

 Department, as is now doing at Eedruth, convenient rooms for 

 practical teaching. The site referred to would afford ample 

 space for well lit and ventilated laboratories at the basement, 

 for apartments and cabinets for study and instruction on the 

 first floor, and over all for an art gallery of noble dimensions lit 

 from the roof. If a suggestion offered lately at Camborne, that 

 the central position of Truro made it the most suitable place for 

 a memorial to Trevithick, should meet with general approval, 

 such an addition to our buildings, replacing by a handsome 

 frontage on a main street, in close proximity to the Cathedral, 

 the now concealed approaches to the Museum, would constitute 

 an appropriate and conspicuous tribute to the increasing fame 

 of that eminent Cornishman, whose bust already occupies a 

 place of honour in this library. The meteorological registers 

 have been kept by Mr. Newcombe with his usual care, and have 

 been turned to still fuller account at home and in the United 

 States. The summary of the results of the whole series of our 

 record is passing through the press — slowly, indeed, from the 

 editor's lack of leisure — and it will be issued as a separate part 

 of the Jownal. A number of letters of the Bev, Henry Martyu 



