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research.. If we were to obliterate the name of the author from 

 the title, it would not be dif3S.cult to discern that this memoir is 

 the work of a matured and accomplished archaeologist — one 

 who has an intimate acquaintance with the antiquities he 

 describes, and the historical bearing they have on the early 

 period to which they may be referred. 



Among the other papers contained in Vol X., I ought to 

 draw your attention briefly to the elaborate and important 

 mineralogical and geological memoirs by Mr. J. H. Collins and 

 Mr. Thomas Clark; the three papers on Mediaeval Cornish History 

 by Mr. W. Sincock ; and to many of the interesting notes on 

 Local Topography which have been prepared with considerable 

 care and attention. Mr. W. H. Tregellas's paper on " The 

 Truro Grammar School," illustrated by two excellent sketches of 

 the exterior and interior of the school by Mr. H. Michell 

 Whitley, will interest many of our older members. 



Most of the members, I am sure, will cordially join me in 

 congratulating Mr. G. C. Boase on the publication of his 

 "Collectanea Oornubiensia," a comprehensive and valuable 

 contribution to the personal and topographical history of the 

 county. The vast number of facts included in the text have 

 been accumulating in the hands of Mr. Boase during several 

 years, and the primary object of their publication is the 

 preservation for the use of future writers on Cornwall of all 

 this information, most of which might otherwise have been lost 

 and difficult to ascertain. The numerous items given on matters 

 relating to the county may be conceived, when we consider that 

 the index alone consists of 304 columns, with about 14,365 

 entries. Some of the family pedigrees are worked out with 

 considerable detail, which must have entailed an enormous 

 labour on the author. These are very valuable in many ways, 

 and I have already derived much interesting information concern- 

 ing many of our old Cornish families. I have also consulted the 

 topographical section with great advantage, in which a mass of 

 local facts may be found relating to most of the parishes and 

 towns in Cornwall. Though in a compilation of such magnitude, 

 numerous unavoidable errors and many entries of little import- 

 ance may naturally be found, yet every true Cornishman must hail 

 the appearance of the "Collectanea Cornubiensia," which, taken 



