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June 14. A slight shock of earthquake, causing houses to oscillate 

 gently, and accompanied by a noise as of artillery, felt at Teignmouth, 

 Dawlish, Starcross, and the neighbourhood, about 20 minutes to 1 o'clock in 

 the morning. 



June 14. A rare fish caught near Mevagissey pier. The Western Morning 

 News states that it was three feet in length, and weighed about 120 lbs., and 

 was called by some, a California Gold Fish. Its original colour was bright 

 red, but it changed to the colours of the rainbow. It had a small mouth and 

 no teeth ; five fins — two pectoral, two ventral, and one dorsal ; and the tail 

 spread like a fan, 15 inches. A scientific gentleman is reported to have said 

 it was a tropical fish, and, he thought, a Torccena ; but others said it was an 

 Ojiah, of the genus Boree, and not unlike the Sea Bream. It is stated that 

 only four or five have been captured on the English shores. 



June 14. Cornish Telegraph publishes " Sheriffs' EoUs (in Cornwall) 

 from 1509 to 1518 ; " and " Names of Persons who held the Commission of 

 the Peace in Cornwall, from 1509 to 1514." 



June 28. Devonshire Association for the advancement of Science 

 Literature, and Art. Fourth Annual Meeting, at Tiverton ; Mr. Charles G. 

 B. Daubeny, M.D., LL.D., F.E.S., Professor of Botany at the Oxford Uni- 

 versity, President. Among the Papers read were the following : Submerged 

 Forests of Torbay; Mr. Pengelly, F.E.S., F.G.S. Trap Eocks of Devon- 

 shire ; Mr. W. Vicary, F.G.S. Artistic Treatment of Devonshire Building 

 Materials ; Mr. Appleton. The Flora of Tiverton ; Mr. F. Mackenzie. An- 

 tiquities of Tiverton ; Eev. J. B. Hughes. A Devonshire Kitchen Midden ; 

 Mr. Pengelly. Cetacean Eemains washed ashore at Babbicombe ; Mr. Pen- 

 gelly. Correlation of the Bovey Tracey Lignite Formation with the Hemp- 

 stead Beds of the Isle of Wight ; Mr. Pengelly. Ancient Pile Dwellings ; 

 Eev. E. Gwatkin, B.D. Excursion to the Black Down Hills. 



June 29. Ee-opening of Lanivet Church, after extensive restoration. 

 (It was in the preparations for this work that the paintings in distemper 

 were discovered, which were afterwards described and lithographed in the 

 Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornioall, No. IV.) 



July 3. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 32nd Annual Meeting ; 

 Mr. E. Were Fox in the Chair. The Chairman read a letter which he had 

 received from General Sabine, enclosing copies of others which had passed 

 between the Board of Trade and the Eoyal Society, in reference to establishing 

 at Falmouth a Station for Meteorological Observations, in connection with 

 others now at Kew and Greenwich ; and the Meeting voted its approval of a 

 Eesolution previously adopted in Committee, assuring the President and 

 Council of the Eoyal Society " of the readiness of this society to endeavour 

 to carry out in this locality any instructions in reference to this interesting 

 and important object." 



July 14. Opening of the Devon and Cornwall Working Classes' Indus- 

 trial Exhibition at Plymouth, by General Lord Templetown. 



