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written for the Ehyl Eisteddf odd, the Oymmrodorion Society ; New 

 South Wales, statistics, history, and resources, 1884, the Agent- 

 General of New South Wales ; Original Letters of Sir Beville 

 Grenville, Kt., Mr. St. David M. Kemeys-Tynte ; photographs of 

 the Cornish Lord Mayor, Sir Isaac Pennington, of the reign of 

 Charles I., Mr. Thurstan C. Peter ; 13 vols, of Sir William Jones's 

 works and several years' proceedings of the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society, the Rev. Canon Moor, St. Clements ; histories of 

 American schools for the Deaf, vols. 1, 2 and 3, the Yolta Bureau ; 

 a number of theological works, from the Swedenborg Society ; 

 several geological works from Mr. J. D. Enys, F.G.S., President 

 of the Institution. 



Museum — Specimens of quartz crystals. Captain Provis, 

 Camborne ; pair of snow shoes and Pompeiian vases, Miss 

 Mary Sophie Tucker (bequest) ; case of cross -bills, two stones 

 worn by blown sand, from New Zealand, tropic bird in case, 

 and six medallions (plaster casts), Mr. J. D. Enys, F.G.S., 

 President ; two B^g» of the African (Congo River) grey parrot, laid 

 in England, Mr. S. Harris, West Cornwall Bank ; hen's q^^ 

 containing a second complete eg^ in a perfect shell, Mr. Michael, 

 Truro ; collection of minerals, rocks, and precipitates from Rio 

 Tinto, Mr. J. Osborne, P.G.S.; Chinese counting board, elephant's 

 tusk, two elephant-teeth, auriferous quartz from Silensing mines, 

 Malay pottery made in Pahang, Malay rice bag, and a hornbill, 

 Capt. James Roberts, Silensing, Pahang ; a collection of fossils 

 from Trevone and Constantino Bay, near Padstow, including the 

 beautiful little cockle cardiola retrostriata {cardium palmatium) 

 which is a typical upper Devonian fossil, by Mr. Howard Fox. 

 In regard to the latter the cephalopods were determined by Mr. 

 G. C. Crick, F.G.S., of the British Museum. Mr. Fox also gave 

 a coin found at Carn Brea, near Redruth, identified at the 

 British Museum as of Micipsa, King of Numidia, B.C. 148-115. 



