ANNUAL MEETING. 147 



A list of Presents to the Library and Museum was also 

 read, and will be found appended. 



The President gave an account of his observations on the 

 efEect upon vegetation, &c., of the dry summer of 1893, and the 

 wet summer of 1894, and of the intermediate frost. 



He also referred to two coins found in different parts of the 

 county. One, at Carn Brea, identified by the British Museum 

 Authorities as a bronze coin of Micipsa (King of Numidia, a 

 Phoenician colony) who reigned before the commencement of 

 the Christian era, the other an English coin, of King Stephen, 

 who reigned A. D. 1135-54. 



Mr. Howard Fox, F.G.S., read some notes on tin-stone, 

 contributed by Mr. J. H. Collins, F.CS., the Society's geologi- 

 cal gold medalist. 



The Eev. D. G. Whitley read a paper sent by Mr. Davey of 

 Ponsanooth on "Plant Distribution," on which an interesting 

 discussion took place. 



Mr. R. V. Tellam, of Bodmin, exhibited and described some 

 remarkable geological formations found in slate in the Eailway 

 cutting at Treworder Wood, near Wadebridge, having the 

 appearance of fossil fish, but considered to be compressed 

 nodules of stone. He presented several good specimens to the 

 Museum, for which the thanks of the Society have been accorded 

 to him. 



Mr. E A. Wiinsch, F.G.S., spoke on the subject of books, 

 suitable for additions to the Library, which had been purchased 

 with part of Miss Curgenven's legacy, and which, being of a 

 modern character, would be found especially useful. 



Mr. E. N. Worth, F.Gr.S., forwarded a continuation of his 

 paper on " The Eude Stone Monuments of Cornwall " as a con- 

 tribution to this Journal. 



Sir John Maclean, F.E.S.A., ex-President of the Institution, 

 in anticipation of not being able to attend the Meeting, had sent 

 a paper on " The Tenure of Old Manors in Cornwall." 



The Eev. W. lago, B.A., exhibited an enlarged drawing of 

 a very minute Venetian coin found in Bodmin. He also showed 

 the coin itself, and gave an account of the legends relating to 



