346 ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr. Davey said they would not need a verbal expression 

 from liiin that he looked upon that as one of the proudest days 

 of his life. 'ihat the Council of the Royal Institution of 

 Cornwall had seen sufficient merit in the work which he had 

 accomplished in connection with one of the richest sections of the 

 British Flora to honor it with the Henwood gold medal, was 

 to him a matter for surprise and gratitude. He could not 

 promise that, as a result of the award, he should apply himself 

 with greater zeal to his work, for he believed that to be 

 impossible ; but this he would say — that whatever close and 

 constant application could do to bring to a successful issue the 

 big undertaking on which he had embarked, would be done, and, 

 when completed, he hoped to further justify the high confidence 

 they were that day placing in him, by numbering him with those 

 men, eminent in the ranks of science and literature, on whom 

 the Henwood medal had already been conferred. Much of 

 what he had been able to contribute to our knowledge 

 of the Cornish flora would have been impossible had not a 

 number of willing workers come to his assistance. To mention 

 them all by name would occupy too much of the time of 

 the meeting, but he could not sit down without telling 

 them that from first to last Mr. J, D. Enys had abounded in 

 kind acts. He had spared neither time nor money to help 

 forward the work, and on not a few occasions had removed what 

 seemed insuperable difficulties. 



Mr. Rupert Vallentin, F.L.S., presented a preliminary 

 report on the Fauna of St. Ives Bay and handed round specimens 

 which he had taken and which he afterwards presented to the 

 museum, 



Mr. Thurstan C. Peter gave some particulars of the mural 

 paintings in St. Keverne Church, of which he produced a sketch 

 by Mr. W. A. RoUason. (See the note to the reproduction of 

 this sketch below.) 



The Rev. D. G-. Whitley referred to interesting geological 

 discoveries in the north of Siberia by Baron Toll, which he 

 asked all interested in the subject to follow up as being most 

 remarkable. 



Dr. J. Clark read " Notes on Cornish Birds." 



