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our members, but now surviving only in their works. I regret 

 to notice that the names of several members of long standing 

 have disappeared, by death, from the roll of the Institution, 

 most of whom have been much interested in its proceediags, and 

 in scientific pursuits generally. Many of these losses by death 

 during the past year have been already recorded by the Council 

 in their last Annual Report. It is appropriate, however, to 

 repeat their names here, and to add a few personal remarks to 

 what has been there given. 



By the death of Mr. Nicholas Whitley, O.E., a Member of 

 of the Council, and a former Honorary Secretary and Vice- 

 President, the Institution has lost one of its oldest supporters, 

 who always took a deep and intelligent interest in its affairs. 

 He was officially connected with the management of the Insti- 

 tution for the long period of thirty-two years, and from 1859 to 

 1879 discharged the duties of Honorary Secretary with great 

 efficiency. Though much occupied with the details of his 

 profession, Mr. Whitley found time to prepare many interesting 

 and valuable papers on geological, archaeological, meteorological, 

 and agricultural subjects, the first being a contribution in 1840 

 to the Reports of this Institution. The titles of about fifty 

 papers are given in the ''Bibliotheca Cornubiensis." Latterly, 

 he turned his attention to the critical study of the probable 

 origin of the flint implements discovered in the Brixham Cavern 

 and other places, in relation to their evidence of the antiquity 

 of man. He was also much interested in the enquiry on the 

 influence of climate on agriculture, as shown by the sensible 

 remarks contained in his papers published in the Journal of the 

 Eoyal Agricultural and other Societies. By the death of Mr. 

 Whitley, local science generally has been deprived of a most 

 devoted supporter. Though he had arrived at a good old age, 

 he was a regular attendant at the meetings of this Institution 

 at which his well-known face will be sadly missed during many 

 years to come. Mr. Whitley was a Fellow of the Eoyal 

 Meteorological Society. 



Q-eological and mineralogieal science has lost one of its 

 highest authorities by the death of Sir Warington W. Smyth, 

 F.E.S., a Vice-President of the Institution, who suddenly and 

 peacefully passed away in his study on June 19, 1890, in the 



