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spondence on the date of the old Church ; from "P. C. Hingeston," January 

 16 ; "Antiquarian," January 24; and "F. C. Hingeston," January 28. 



January 18. Penzance Library. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice, 

 by Dr. Willan, of recent Additions to the Penzance Library ; including gifts 

 from Mr. Halliwell, Mr. Pedler, and others. 



January 25. Cornish Telegraph publishes a Letter signed "Eushlight," 

 on Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica. (Peculiarities of ancient Cornish language.) 



January 27. West Briton publishes a letter from " N. Hare, jun., Lis- 

 keard," on " The Cornish Arms." 



February 8. Letter signed " Eushlight," in Cornish Telegraph, on 

 Archffiologia Cornu-Britannica. (Cornish and other dialects of Celtic language.) 



February 9. Lecture at the Plymouth Institution, by Mr. C. Spence 

 Bate, F.E.S., P.L.S., on Eoman-British Antiquities recently discovered near 

 Fort Stamford, Plymouth. The antiquities, since deposited in the Museum 

 of the Plymouth Institution, were found in graves, most of which were about 

 four and a half feet deep, and built of stones, the corpses having been in- 

 terred in a sitting posture. Letters on the subject, in Western Morning Nexus : 

 — February 15, from " A Daily Eeader " ; and February 23, from " J. Brook- 

 ing Eowe," and " J. Shelly," Honorary Secretaries of the Plymouth Institu- 

 tion. 



February 22. Cornish Telegraph publishes a Notice of Eemains of a 

 Primaeval Forest at Fowey. 



February 28. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Fifth 

 General Meeting, at Eedruth ; Mr. T. Garland, of Fairfield, in the Chair, 

 Mr. Williams, of TreguUow, appointed President for the next two years. 



March 1. Cornish Telegraph publishes a Letter signed " N," on the 

 Cornish Language. 



March 13. Death of Mr. James Wentworth Buller, of Downes, M.P., a 

 Proprietor of the Royal Institution of Cornvjall. 



March 21. An adult male Spoonbill, in splendid plumage, shot at Lower 

 Nansloe, near Helston. 



April 1. A large specimen of the Lumpfish, Lumpsucker, or Cockpaddle, 

 caught off the Bucks Eock, Penzance. 



April 7. West Briton contains a notice of an Antiquarian Discovery in 

 the Church of St. Just in Penwith. fSee Journal of the Royal Institution of 

 Cornwall, No. IV, p. 81). 



April 11. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Council Meeting 

 at Eedruth. Mr. Clement Le Neve Foster appointed Lecturer in place of Mr. 

 Eichard Pearce, jun., who had resigned in consequence of his removal to 

 Swansea. 



April 11. Cuckoo heard between Madron and Penzance. 



