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and on its completion will be employed in astronomical work, the 

 results of which will be contributed from time to time to the 

 Journal. 



The Henwood Medal and the conditions attached to its 

 award must next claim notice. The medal is to be of gold, and 

 has to be awarded in the third year next after the purchase of 

 the dies. The dies were procured on the 8th July, 1887. It will 

 thus be seen that before this report appears in the Journal more 

 than half of the time will have expired. It is therefore for the 

 Council to consider what steps if any shall be taken to make 

 more generally known how quickly the time is approaching when 

 the first medal will be awarded. 



In the appointment of a new Curator, the choice of the 

 Council fell upon Mr. Henry Crowther, formerly of the Leeds 

 Museum and of the Yorkshire Greological Society. He entered on 

 his duties in October. Being a specialist in biology, conchology, 

 geology, and microscopic science, and having had a special 

 training in the newer methods of museum arrangements, it is 

 hoped that the many treasures in our Museum in his charge, will 

 be brought into that prominence which they deserve. As a 

 science teacher and lecturer, Mr. Crowther is known in Yorkshire 

 and Lancashire. The members and friends of our Institution will 

 have the benefit of his experience, and considering that the city 

 of Truro is fast becoming the educational centre of Cornwall, 

 the Institution is fortunate in having secured the services of a 

 Curator who will be able to place its collections on a level with 

 modern requirements. 



The Council would here desire to express the sincere regret 

 felt by all at the loss sustained by the retirement, through illness 

 and age, of the late Curator Mr. "William Newcombe. After a 

 period of 34 years' service in this Institution, he carries with him 

 the highest esteem and deepest sympathy of all those with whom 

 he has been so long and intimately connected. To trace the 

 incidents which have occurred during his term of office, would be 

 to give an epitome of the progress of the Institution ; he and it, 

 having had, as it where, one existence for the third part of a 

 century. In an Institution like our own, where it is desirable 

 to meet exactly the wishes of the various members who form it, 



