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the farmers had proved helpful. The law as now administered 

 was absolutely useless, and unless they took it into their own 

 hands they could accomplish very little. 



The Rev. W. Iago explained the "Luther Picture" from 

 Place House, St. Anthony, lent by Mr. J. S. Spry, and exhibited 

 at the meeting. The picture contains the portraits of the 

 reformers, and shows a candle representing the hght of the 

 Reformation which the enemies of the truth are unable to 

 extinguish. A print of a very similar description appears in an 

 old edition of Poxe's "Book of Martyrs." 



Papers were then read by Messrs. Spiller (on Cornish 

 Lepidoptera), P. H. Davey, P. Jennings, Rupert Vallentin, and 

 Thurstan C. Peter, most of which are printed in this number of 

 the Journal. 



A vote of thanks was accorded those who had read papers 

 and the donors of gifts to the Museum, on the motion of Dr. 

 Clark and Mr. Carne. 



Canon Moor, proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Williams 

 for presiding, said he was afraid flower growing for the land- 

 owner was more a matter of luxury and of kindly feeling for 

 those around him than of pecuniary profit. The Rev. A. 

 Yawdrey seconded. The vote was unanimously carried. 



Mr. Williams, in response, said profit was not necessarily 

 cash. Even if it were so, what was the good of cash unless it 

 brought something else ? Cash was generally put to the purpose 

 of obtaining pleasure, and money was only the value of that 

 which it would bring in. If they obtained what they wanted 

 without the intervention of cash by the expenditure of their own 

 time and care, he thought that profit was obtainable in a wider 

 sense than was generally ascribed to it. 



At the close tea was served to the visitors. 



