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The collection has been temj)orarily arranged in one of the 

 rooms downstairs, and will remain there until the work of re- 

 arrangement has sufficiently advanced to allow of its being 

 placed with the general collection. The Institution is indeed 

 fortunate in having secured this valuable and important collection, 

 and the Council desire to express their thanks to Mr. J. D. Enys 

 for the interest he shewed in the matter, Col. Sir Francis Graves- 

 Sawle having consulted him as to the most suitable place in the 

 county in which to deposit the collection. A complete list of 

 the birds will bo given in the Journal. 



Mr. J. D. Enys' name again figures largely in the list of 

 donors. The case of ten Cornish wagtails presented by him 

 is well set up and contains no less than five of the different 

 species recorded for the county. There has also been received 

 from him a beautiful slab of New Zealand jade, cut from a 

 large stone which belonged to the natives of that country, and a 

 fine specimen of the mineral Enysite, from St. Agnes. It is 

 interesting to note that Enysite was first found at this place and 

 was named after Mr Enys' father. 



The Cornwall County Council Fisheries Committee, having 

 found it advisable to close the Fishery Museum, which existed 

 for some time at Falmouth, kindly handed over to us their 

 collections of shells and preserved fish and also a number of 

 valuable ^\■orks on fishes and fisheries, 



Mr. Alderman Dorrington has presented a most interesting 

 series of fishing appliances from the South Sea Islands. Among 

 other things are fish hooks of human bone and fishing lines of 

 human hair. 



The portraits in oil of Lord de Dunstanville, WiUiam 

 Mansell Tweedy, and J. H. Tregellas have been cleaned and 

 restored by Mr. Rollason, and are now hung in the Entrance 

 Hall. The portrait of Anthony Payne, the Cornish giant, has' 

 also been restored by the same hand, at the expense of the donor 

 of the picture. Sir Robert Harvey, to whom our sj)ecial thanks 

 are due. Great credit is due to Mr. Rollason for the masterly 

 way in which the work has been done. 



The number of visitors to the museum continues to steadily 

 increase. During the past twelve months 5,503 persons have 

 been to examine the collections. 



