JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 



No. XIX. MAY. 1877. 



SPRING MEETING AT TRURO, 



May nth, 1877. 



THE PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



IT now becomes my duty as your President — according to a 

 custom observed at our Spring Meetings for the last 15 of 

 our 59 years of existence — to address to you a few words on the 

 position of our Institution ; noticing also anything remarkable 

 which, coming within our scope, may, I think be interesting to 

 you, or demand some remark from me. 



Grenerally, I may congratulate you on the flourishing state of 

 the Institution, especially with respect to the increasing interest 

 taken in our work : and our list of new subscribers exceeds the 

 number of those we have lost by death. 



Finances. 



I am glad to say that the debt which was incurred in the 

 purchase of the freehold land on which our museum is built, and 

 in the building of the museum, has been reduced to £50 ; but 

 this has I fear been somewhat increased by the outlay this year 

 in necessary repairs and in painting, to the extent of £120. 



Our list of subscribers has increased little by little during the 

 last few years, and some of those members who have succeeded 



