246 THE peesident's addkess. 



contributed to the Journal : this will be useful, but a full '' Index 

 rerum " is what is really required. I hope the attention of your 

 Council wiU at once be directed to this object. 



We have to regret the loss by death of 4 members since our 

 last Spring meeting, but at the same time 6 new members have 

 joined us. 



A.mong those whom we have lost, the name of William Joey 

 Henwood is conspicuous. 



He was born at Perran-ar-worthal, January 16, 1805, and died 

 at Penzance August 5, 1875, in the 7lst year of his age. 



Although his death has been a subject of notice and regret 

 at one or two of our ordinary meetings, when his bequests to our 

 Institution were recorded and acknowledged ; and though it has 

 been briefly noticed in the Report of the Council in November 

 last, yet considering his eminence in the science of geology and 

 mineralogy, and that, whether as President, or as an ordinary 

 member of this Institution, he ever took a warm interest in its 

 welfare, I shall be justified in making more than a passing 

 allusion to him on the present occasion. 



It is not five years since Mr. Henwood filled the office of Presi- 

 dent to this Institution, with an ability and energy which many of 

 you will recollect : and he has left a substantial proof of the interest 

 he took in our society by bequeathing to it two reversionary 

 legacies, one of £100 for the general purposes of the Institution, 

 and the other of £200, to be invested to defray the cost of a 

 gold medal to be awarded every three years, for the encourage- 

 ment of the scientific objects referred to in the Council's report. 



The President of the Eoyal Greological Society of Cornwall (with 

 the objects of which Society Mr. Henwood' s pursuits were specially 

 connected) has given in his address, which appears in the 62nd 

 Eeport just issued, many details of the life, character, and 

 scientific works of our deceased member, which need not be 

 repeated by me. But that which gave value to his opinions and 

 writings may be repeated, namely, that his statements were all 

 founded on acciu-ate personal observation, and his deductions were 

 drawn from practical experience. Mr. Henwood made himself 

 what he was by persevering industry, a quality which was de- 

 tected and first utilized by the Messrs. Fox and Co., of Perran- 

 wharf, when Mr. Henwood was at the age of 17. During the five 



