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Ropal Institution or CorntoalL 



82ND ANNUAL MEETING, 1900. 



Notwithstanding a perfect deluge of rain on Friday- 

 afternoon, as well as the High School distribution of prizes, 

 there was a fair attendance at the Annual Meeting of the Eoyal 

 Institution of Cornwall, held at the Institution Buildings, Truro. 

 Mr. J. C. Williams, the President, was in the Chair, and those 

 also present included Sir Greorge Smith, the Mayor (Mr. E. Lean), 

 Major Parkyn, F.G.S., Mr. J. D. Enys, F.G.S., the Eev. W. 

 lago, B.A., the Eev, D. G. Whitley, Archdeacon Cornish, the 

 Eev. S. Eundle, Professor Clark, Professor 0. V. Miiller, Canon 

 J. H. Moore, the Eev. S. W. Kingsford, Messrs. J. Osborn, 

 F.G.S., Hamilton James, W. N. Gill, E. M. Hill, Silvanus 

 Trevail, A. Jenkin, E. Sharp, Eobert Fox, A. Blenkinsop, F. A. 

 Cozens, T. L. Dorrington, J. Barrett, J. H. James, J. E. Collins, 

 F. Chown, E. A. Gregg, E. Vallentin, T. Worth, A. C. Dixon, 

 W. J. Clyma, H. Barrett, T. Clark, W. J. Gates, J. T. Letcher, 

 F. H. Davey, and G. Penrose (curator and librarian), Mrs. Clark, 

 Miss L. Smith, Miss Paull, Miss Miiller, Miss Mabel Bryant, 

 Miss Snell, Miss Eudall, Miss Parkyn, Miss A. A. Eudall, Miss 

 Clyma, Miss Tomn, Miss M. Jenkin, Miss Henderson, Miss Share, 

 Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Blenkinsop, Miss Williams, Miss H. James, 

 Miss James, Miss T. James, and Miss Truran. 



Letters regretting inability to attend were received from the 

 Bishop of Truro, Canon Donaldson, Messrs. J. H. Collins, T. C. 

 Peter, and E. M. Paul. Sir J. Langdon Bonython wrote from 

 London regretting his inability to be present, and stating that he 

 and his family would leave for Australia next week. He 

 remarked: — "I have long felt the keenest interest in your 

 society, and it would have afforded me very great pleasure to 

 bear my testimony to the excellent work it has done and is doing. 

 Its Transactions are a valuable contribution to the literature of 



