iioj)al fmstitmion of CorniJoaU. 



SPEING MEETING, 1886. 



The Sx^ring- Meeting of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall 

 was held on June 4th at the Rooms of the Institution. In the 

 absence, through illness, of the President, the Eev. W. lago, B.A., 

 the chair was taken by Mr. H. M. Je£fery, F.E.S., Vice- 

 President ; but no formal address was delivered. 



In taking the chair, Mr. Jeffery said : "We all deeply 

 regret the enforced absence of the President, the Eev. W. lago, 

 B.A. , Correspondent to the Society of Antiquaries for Corn- 

 wall, from whom we had anticipated a Presidential Address 

 of interest and permanent value. Early in the year, when our 

 President-elect, he delivered at Plymouth an able review of 

 Cornish Archaeology, embracing its newest developments, so that 

 we might then have anticipated that he would further enrich 

 our own proceedings, as he has enriched them in the past. I 

 desire to express the warm sympathy of this meeting with our 

 President ; hopes for his speedy recovery, and re-appearance in 

 these rooms. 



The following obituary notices were read from the chair : — - 



EicHARD Edmonds. 



Amongst our members that have passed away must be 

 numbered Eicliard Edmonds, seismologist and antiquary, who 

 in early life practised as a solicitor in Penzance, and died at 

 Plymouth, in his 8 5th year. He closely studied the extraordi- 



