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discoveries he had previously obtained the key to the age of 

 great part of the older rocks of Cornwall and Devon. These 

 studies brought him into contact with Darwin, Owen, Huxley, 

 Lyell, Buckland, and other leaders of science in various depart- 

 ments. Mr. Peach was also a close observer of the feathered 

 tribe ; he records that he heard the nightingale in the summer 

 of 1837, in the neighbourhood of Carhayes, and at Gorran 

 Haven, where he so long resided, he had known the swallows 

 to remain there so late as November 30th. A list of his 

 contributions to the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall would be 

 undesirable in this Report ; but a full catalogue of his papers 

 occupies more than two columns in the Bihliotheca CornuMensis. 

 Mr. Eichard Edmonds, who died in the spring of this year was 

 associated with this Institution for upwards of 40 years, and 

 during the whole of that long period he was a welcome contributor 

 of papers to our Journal. He was born at Penzance, in 1801, 

 and was educated at the Penzance and Helston Grammar 

 Schools. The last years of his life were passed at Plymouth, in 

 which town he died. Mr. Edmonds was a very voluminous 

 writer; a list of the papers he published with those he contri- 

 buted to the Transactions of Scientific Societies occupies nearly 

 six columns of the Bihliotheca Cornubiensis — upwards of a 

 dozen of these he sent for publication to the Journal of this 

 Institution. Mr. Teague was a remarkable instance of the way 

 in which steady perseverance and diligence in one's calling can 

 raise a man to an influential position. His incessant occupation 

 in the work of his life, namely, the development of the mining 

 interest of the County, did not prevent his taking an interest in 

 the various Scientific Institutions of Cornwall. 



The Museum has been visited by a large number of persons 

 to whom its instructive and interesting contents have been freely 

 open, affording them an opportunity of seeing a large portion 

 of the productions of the animal and mineral kingdoms, as well 

 as many illustrations of various conditions of human life in 

 by-gone days. In the collection will be found examples well 

 adapted to assist the student of ethnography, geography, and 

 the natural history of foreign countries, whilst of our own 

 county the petrography, mineralogy and archseology, together 

 with its fauna, are well represented. The collection in our 



