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THE ' PRESIDENT 8 ADDRESS. 



the present time, by one of our excellent secretaries, J. H. 



Collins, F.G.S., and author of the Handbook to the Mineralogy 



of Cornwall and Devon. 

 Mr. J. H. Collins is also X3reparing a work on the Petrology of 



Cornwall and Devon, uniform with his work on Mineralogy 



above alluded to; and another on the Hensbarrow granite 



district. 

 There is also nearly ready by the same author a translation of 



Professor L. Moissenet's " Observations on the rich parts of 



the Lodes of Cornwall." 

 A work published in 1833, entitled "Visions of the Western 



Railways, and dedicated to Sir Charles Lemon, was long an 



anonymous work, but a writer in Notes and Queries, 5th series, 



of this year, has proved that the author was Eichard Edward 



Austen Townsend, of Doctor's Commons, and Springfield, 



Norwood, Surrey. 



A new edition of Couch's Fauna of Cornwall, part i, containing 

 Vertebrates and Crustaceans, is a publication now in progress 

 under the auspices of our Institution, and, as we are promised 

 the assistance of such accomplished naturalists as Messrs. J. 

 Brooking Powe, C Spence Bate, E. H. Podd, T. Cornish and 

 C. W. Peach, it is sure to do credit to our society. 

 Natural productions of Cornwall. 



I will now call your attention to a few facts relating to the 

 most important natural productions of Cornwall. 



The first subject under this head is that which used to be most 

 characteristic of this county, namely, the production of mineral 

 ore, and the statistics imder this head are, I regret to say, not 

 very cheering. 



In the production of Tin in Cornwall the mineral statistics 



shew a lamentable falling off, and a still more alarming falling 



off in price.* 



* Minerals produced in Cornwall in 1876, and previous years. 

 TIN. 



Standard has gone up. 



