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Later on, Archdeacon Cornish announced that the Bishop 

 would be pleased to become a member. 



Major Parkyn, the Hon. Secretary, read the Annual Report. 



EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, in 

 presenting their 73rd Annual Report, have much pleasure in 

 congratulating the members on the great advance in all branches 

 of the Institution since the last annual meeting, for whether 

 they regard the continued progress made by the Curator in the 

 better display of the objects in the Museum, the general work 

 of his classification, the many valuable additions to the collections, 

 or the numerous gifts to the library, it must be evident 

 to every one that the Society is passing through a period of 

 progress and prosperity. 



Death, however, has been more than usually busy in the 

 ranks of the members since the last annual report, and the 

 Society have to lament the loss of Mr. N. Whitley, F.E.Met.S., 

 Mr. H. M. Jeffery, M.A., F.E.S., the Eight Hon. Sir Montague 

 Smith, Mr. W. Sincock, Mr. Gleorge Williams, and Mr. Charles 

 Harvey. 



Mr. Whitley's connection with the Institution dates back 

 some 40 years, during the whole of which time he took an active 

 and leading part in the affairs of the Society ; he was a valuable 

 and voluminous writer for the Journal, for many years he was one 

 of the Secretaries and filled successively the offices of Member 

 of Council and Vice-President. It will be unnecessary here to 

 dwell more at length on his services to the Institution, as an 

 obituary notice is promised for the next number of the Journal. 



Mr. Jeffery joined this Society immediately on returning to 

 take up his permanent residence in his native county. It may 

 be said of him that he threw himself heart and soul into the 

 work of the Institution, and as a Member of Council was 

 most regular in his attendance at the Meetings ; indeed, it 

 was a very rare thing for him to be absent from them. It is 

 somewhat remarkable that so abstruse a mathematician should 

 in his anxiety to help on the objects of the Society and to assist 

 in the literary work of the Council, have taken so much interest 

 in archseologieal and topographical history, but we have only to 



