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The name of our late Vice-President, Dr. Jago, has been so 

 intimately associated with the history and progress of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall during the last forty years or more, that 

 it becomes naturally our duty to place on record in the Journal 

 of the Institution, a few brief notes on his personal and scientific 

 career. It has fallen to the lot of few scientific men to be able 

 to give, for so long a period, so much active assistance in the 

 management of a Society as he did, for it is well-known that Dr. 

 Jago has never failed in taking a more than common interest in 

 everything that had for its object the prosperity of our Institu- 

 tion. Next to his venerated friend. Dr. Barham, perhaps, no one 

 was more devoted than he in promoting its scientific and general 

 welfare, whether at the Council table, the Annual Meetings, or at 

 the more social summer excursions. He had filled with distinction 

 the ofiices of Secretary and President, and at the time of his 

 death he was our oldest Vice-President. The Institution has 

 sustained a great loss by the removal of so old a supporter of its 

 interests, while his many friends most deeply deplore that they 

 have been deprived of a faithful colleague, although during tho 

 last few years his physical weakness quite incapacitated him from 

 attending the ordinary meetings. 



James Jago, B.A. (Cantab), and M.D. (Oxon), P.E.S., was 

 the second son of Mr. John Jago, of Falmouth, who married 

 Jane, daughter of Mr. John Smith, of Tregearn, St. Keverne. 

 He was born on December 18, 1815, at the Barton of Kigilliack, 

 Budock, once a seat of the Bishops of Exeter. This branch of 

 the family formerly resided in the parish of St. Erme, where 

 they were settled before the year 1588. In 1646, a Mr. John 

 Jago, of Truthan, from whom Dr. Jago was lineally descended, 

 petitioned the House of Lords respecting some land held by him 

 under Col. Nicholas Burlace. In his petition he complains "that 

 the said Nicholas Burlace had turned him out of certain lands 

 which he held under him, and he prays that he may be permitted 



