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usefulness. With more help more can he done and it is felt that 

 there must he many in the county wlio would hecome niemhers 

 if they were approached. 



The president has one more year to serye and the council 

 recommend that the other gentlemen mentioned in the following 

 list be ajDpointed to the respectiye offices for the ensuing year : — 



President : 



Sir EDWIN DURNING-LAWREN'CE, Bart., M.P. 



Vice-Presidents : 



Mr. TOHX D. EXYS, F.Ct.S. | Sir J. LANGDON BONYTHON. 



The Rt. Hon. L. H. rOURTNEY. | Mr. J. C. WILLIAMS. 



Rev. S. BARING-GOULD. | Sir ROBERT HAR\'EY. 



Treasurer : 

 Mr. A. P. NIX. 



Secretaries : 

 Major PARKYN, F.G.S., and Rev. W. lAGO, B.A. 



Other Members of the Council : 



Ven. Archdeacon CORNISH. M.A. I :Mr. THURSTAN C. PETER. 



Mr. HOWARD FOX. F.G.S. | Rev. S. RUNDLE, M.A. 



Mr. HAMILION JAMES. I Mr. JAMES OSBORNE, F.G.S. 



Rev. D. G. WHITLEY, I Profe.s.sor ). CLARK, D.Sc, :m.A. 



Chancellor PAUL, M.A. | Rev. H. H. MILLS. 



joint Editors of the Journal : 

 Mr. THURSTAN C. PETER and Major PARKYN, F.G.S. 



Mr. J. H. Collins moyed the adoption of the report, and 

 proposed a vote of thanks to the officers. 



Eey. W. E. Graves seconded, and the motion w as carried. 

 St. PIRAX'S old CHURCH. 



The archdeacon of Cornwall referred to the old church of 

 St. Piran at Perranzahuloe, and moved that Mr. Thurstan 

 C. Peter be appointed their representative on the committee 

 selected by the Diocesan Conference to consider the preservation 

 of the church. He said they all felt it was of the gTeatest 

 importance that a building so insignificant in itself, but so 

 extremely valuable to them in Cornwall, should be properly 

 cared for. At present there was a real danger of the building 

 being again swallowed up by the sands, and if they did not take 

 advantage of the opportunities now being given to them it would 

 lapse into its old sleep. They wanted as far as possible to keep 

 the old church as a memorial of what it really was — the oldest 

 church in Cornwall and very nearly the oldest in the countr}'. 



