126 president's address. 



Trees of Salisburia adiantifolia, (Ginko tree of China 

 and Japan.) 

 At Enys, Carclew, Penrose, Penzance. 



Trees of Fagtjs, (Fern or Split-leaf Beech.) 



The finest I know is at Pencalenick ; there are two at Enys, 

 one at Grove Hill, and other places. 



An index, however short, to any of our County Histories, such 

 as Polwhele's (in which is hidden a great deal of information) 

 would be of real service. Such an index, showing to what part of 

 Hals, Tonkin, Davies Gilbert, Polwhele, Hitchens, Drew, C. S. 

 Gilbert, Lysons, &c., and the 4 volumes published by Lake, a 

 student could turn to find any parish, would be a great help to 

 research, especially if local books on any such parishes were also 

 mentioned. In the Collectanea Cornubiensia, a partial index to 

 Lake's publication is given. 



Extracts from the Parish Registers, in which are recorded 

 the collections for rebuilding churches, — such as St. Paul's in 

 London, — and other purposes, and the payments for vermin 

 destroyed, would be of interest to many, especially to lovers 

 of natural history, etc. May I ask our friends, the clergy, in 

 each parish to help us by sending such extracts to the Eoyal 

 Institution of Cornwall, Truro. 



As an illustration, I give a few extracts from the register 

 at Launceston. Money was collected for sufferers by fire at 

 Oxford, in 1661 ; for the church at Pontefract in 1662 ; also for 

 the church of Fakenham, in Norfolk. 



I have chosen as the subject of my address : — 



THE PECTJLIARITIES OF CORNISH CHURCHES, 



in regard to which I desire to point out some of the respects in 

 which they differ from those in other parts of England, 

 and what has probably been the origin of the peculiarities, 

 and of their prevailing forms. The earliest places of worship 

 must have been the chapels or oratories of the first missionaries 

 who Christianised the inhabitants of the country. Of these, we 

 have the Old Church of Perranzabuloe, described by the Rev. 

 Trelawny Collins,* (first edition 1836), also by Rev. W. Haslam, 



* Mr. Trelawny Collins afterwards took the surname of Trelawny. 



