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SPRING MEETING, 1888. 



The Annual Spring Meeting was held at the Rooms of the 

 Institution, Truro, on May 24th, 1888. The Rev. W. lago in 

 the chair, in the absence of the President through ill health. 



The Chairman delivered an address, to the following effect: — 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — "We hoped that Mr.Tremayne would 

 have been able to preside here to-day, to deliver to us the annual 

 Presidential address. We much regret his absence, and are 

 very sorry that illness has been the cause of it. We learn, 

 however, with satisfaction, that he will probably soon be well 

 and amongst us again. You have been so kind as to invite nie 

 to address you in the President's stead; I will therefore offer a 

 few remarks trusting that you will receive them with the utmost 

 indulgence, for, until the last moment, I refrained from believ- 

 ing that I should really be called upon to act in this capacity 

 to-day. I have not prepared any formal address, but, coming 

 down in the train this morning, from Bodmin, I began to think 

 of a few matters which might interest you, and, whilst conversing 

 on other subjects, jotted down some hasty memoranda which I 

 have since lost, but perhaps their details will recur to my 

 thoughts as I proceed, and I have noted some inscriptions. 



Major Parkyn, our Honorary Secretary and local main-spring, 

 has not failed to keep me acquainted with the financial and 

 other conditions of our Society, but before entering on such 

 topics I would remind you that at our last Spring Meeting we 

 were all looking forward to the celebration of the regnal Jubilee 

 of Her Most Gracious Majesty, and as your President I com- 

 menced my address on that occasion with the heart-felt exclama- 

 tion — " Long may Victoria reign ! — God save the Queen ! " 

 All those j)resent cordially joined with me in that expression of 



