AJTNTTAL GENERAL MEETING. 



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On the motion of Mr. Tweedy, seconded by the Eev. A. 

 E. Tomlinson, the report was received, adopted, and ordered 

 to be printed. 



The Chairman expressed his thanks for the kindness shown 

 him during the two years he had been president The first year 

 he was absent very much through illness, but during the past 

 year he was happy to say he had been restored to health, and 

 all matters of importance had come before them in the second 

 year and not in the first. He now had pleasure in asking Mr. 

 John Tremayne to take the chair as their new president, 

 and to conduct the remainder of the proceedings. No eulogy 

 of Mr. Tremayne was necessary, as he was so well known, 

 and they might congratulate themselves on the fact that 

 Mr. Tremayne was now their president. 



Mr. Tremayne, in taking the chair, said he must thank 

 them for the compliment they had paid him in asking him 

 to occupy the position which he now did as their president. 

 When asked to take the position he feared that if he accepted 

 they would find him a square peg in a round hole. He felt he 

 was nothing more than an ordinary country squire and was not 

 qualified to assume a leading position among men of literary 

 and scientific research such as he had the pleasure of seeing 

 before him that day. It was only, therefore, as a country 

 gentleman that he accepted the office, and as a Cornishman 

 feeling an interest in all things relating to the welfare and 

 advancement of Cornwall that he stood before them. His 

 position was a difficult one and more especially was it so as he 

 had to follow Mr. lago, a gentleman whose qualifications were 

 such as few gentlemen who occupied the chair of that institution 

 possessed. 



The following list of Presents since the Spring Meeting, 

 held on Monday, Jane 6th, 1887, was then read : — 



Bath 



Birmingham . 



Bristol 



Ditto 



TO THE LIBRARY. 



Proceedings of the Bath Natural History 

 Society and Antiquarian Field Club. 



Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosoph- 

 ical Society. 



Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' 

 Society, Vol. 5, Part 2. 



Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester 

 Archaeological Society. 



From the Club. 

 The Society. 

 The Society. 

 The Society. 



