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considerable personal interest in its work. The recent death, of 

 Mr. Edward Trewbody Carlyon has removed a prominent member 

 of a family so well-known in Cornwall, which has been associated 

 with the Eoyal Institution from its foundation in 1818. 



In addition to the above, the late curator, Mr. William 

 Newcombe, has also passed away at the ripe age of eighty-five. 

 He faithfully carried out the wishes of the Council during the 

 long period of thirty-five years, as the curator in personal charge 

 of the Library and Museum. I have had, on several occasions, 

 personal proofs of his kindness and civility, and I am sure that, 

 on his retirement in 1888, he had earned the highest esteem and 

 sympathies of those with whom he had so long been connected. 

 Adopting the expression of the Council in their Annual Eeport, 

 I may confidently repeat that "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 were, one existence for the third part of a century." 



It is very gratifying to be able again this year to speak of 

 the continued progress of the Eoyal Institution. The public 

 has shown no decrease of interest in the Museum, and the many 

 valued additions, both to it and the library made since I last 

 addressed you, show that our friends in almost every part of the 

 world are still ready to help us. Our member, Mr. Robert 

 Harvey, has again liberally assisted in carrying out the objects 

 of the Institution. Besides a donation of ten guineas, he has 

 presented a rare portrait of the celebrated Henry Rogers, the 

 Helston Pewterer. Mr. Richard Pearce, of Denver, U.S., has 

 presented a further donation of five guineas, and also a collection 

 of British butterflies and bird's eggs, a most valuable addition 

 which will materially assist in completing the collections of 

 objects of this kind already in the Museum. Mr. Walter H. 

 Harris, late Sheriff of London, is the donor of a beautiful set 

 of models of diamonds, gems, and crystallographic forms of 

 minerals, which have been placed in the handsome case presented 

 by him in the spring of last year. 



The Museum has also been enriched by a considerable 

 number of valuable contributions from various other friends of 

 the Institution. I have only time to refer to a few of these 



