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IRo^al 3n6tttution of Cornwall 



SPEING MEETING, 1904. 



The Spring Meeting was held at the rooms of the Institution 

 on Tuesday, the l7th May. The president (Sir Edwin Durning- 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P.) occupied the chair and there were also 

 present the archdeacon of Cornwall, revs. S. Euudle, D. G. 

 Whitley, St. A. H. Molesworth St. Aubyn, H. H. Mills, T. Taylor, 

 H. Edwardes, W. E. Graves, S. H. FarweU Eoe, Dr. Clark, Col. 

 Horsford, Messrs. J. D. Enys, T. C. Peter, W. N. Carne, J. 

 Osborne, H. James, W. A. Rollason, J. Barett, W. Borlase, W. 

 J. Clyma, E. H. Davison, G. Dixon, J. H. Morrish, A. Blenkin- 

 sop, J. E Douglas, F. E. C. Soul, A. C. Dixon, E. J. Eowe, E. 

 Michell, G. H. Thomas, H. Barrett, J. E. Collins, 0. Blackford, 

 J. L. Coad, Jas. Bryant, rev. W. lago and Major Parkyn, F.G.S. 

 (hon. secretaries) and Mr. G. Penrose (curator and librarian), Lady 

 Durning-Lawrence, Mesdames St. A. H. Molesworth St. Aubyn, 

 Farwell Eoe, Graves, Pearse Jenkin, Morrish, Leverton, Borlase, 

 Share, G. Dixon, Cornish, Eollason, Clark, Collins, the Misses G. 

 Jenkin, Heath, Tomn, S. Tomn, Snell, Truran, Share, F. E. 

 Dixon, Michell, Cornish, Burrell, and M. Eeynolds. 



Letters of regret at inability to be present were received 

 from Canon A. P. Moor, the rev. S. Baring-Gould, Dr. E. Pearce, 

 Messrs. J. H. Collins, E. Fox, A. P. Jenkin, T. Clark, and P. 

 Jennings. 



Sir Edwin Darning-Lawrence said he had to thank the 

 members for the high honour they had conferred upon him by 

 electing him president of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. 

 Looking at the men of great ability and knowledge and position 

 who had occupied the chair before him, he could not fail to 

 realise how great an honour it was to be that day enrolled with 

 them. He then delivered an address on steam in relation to 

 Cornwall (which is printed in this journal). 



The rev. D. G. Whitley read a paper on Ancient Lakes in 

 Cornwall. 



