94 CHEONOLOGICAL MEMOEANDA, 1865. 



July 14. West Briton publishes a Letter from Mr. J. T. Blight, on the 

 " Destn;ction of Cornish Antiquities," particularly at St. Madron's Well. 

 The same paper contains a notice of " Cornish Eelics " exhibited at a meet- 

 ing of the Archceological Society. 



July 17. Exhibition at the Keyham National School Eooms, Devonport, 

 by the Eev. iEneas B. Hutchison, B.D., of Tracings and Drawings, mostly 

 made by himself, of more than 500 Brasses and Monumental Slabs, in 

 England, Scotland, France, and Belgium. These illustrations afforded ex- 

 amples of changes in costume, civil, ecclesiastical, and military, from the 

 1.3th to the 18th centmies ; and among them were some from Cornwall and 

 Devon. 



July 30. Death of Mr. Thomas Garland, of Fairfield, Illogan ; a Member 

 of the Royal Institution of Cornioall, and a Contributor to its Journal. 



August 9. Cornish Telegraph contains a notice of (stipposed) antiquities, 

 ploughed up in an enclosure called " The Hurling Field," on Trevurgans 

 estate, in Buryan. (The objects were a brass ring, and a gold ring with 

 setting for a stone). — In the same number of the G. T. is a Paper (quoted 

 from the Gentleman's Magazine) by Mr. J. T. Blight, on Cornish Barrows. 



August 9. Penzance Natm-al History and Antiquarian Society. Meeting 

 of Committee. The Secretaries reported the purchase of a Gold Ornament, 

 discovered near Chapel Uny Cave, in St. Buryan ; also the purchase of 

 two specimens of Coral fished up at the Eunnel Stone. 



August 11. Cornwall Gazette notices the fact that a Paper had been 

 read by Mr. Eogers, M.P., at a meeting of the Archceological Institute, and 

 reported in the Gentleman's Magazine for August, concerning a recent dis- 

 covery of Eoman Brass Coins near the shore of Falmouth Harbour. 



August 23. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. An 

 Excursion, by members and friends of this Society, to Mulfra Quoit ; Bos- 

 prennis Hut, and remains of an Ancient Barrow and fallen Cromlech ; and 

 Gurnard's Head. 



August 30. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 83rd Annual Exhibi- 

 tion at Falmouth. Papers read : On the probable course of the Ancient Tin 

 Trade, by Eev. Crossley Saunders ; and on the Cornish Elm, by Mr. Edward 

 Vivian of Torquay. , 



August 31. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Annual 

 Meeting at Falmouth ; Mr. Eogers, of Penrose, in the Chair. The following 

 Papers read : Mining in Cornwall, two centuries ago, by Professor Hunt. 

 Vital Statistics of Cornish Mining ; by Mr. Charles Fox. The Occurrence of 

 Gold in Cornwall and Devon ; by Mr. Dean. 



September 1. West Briton contains a biographical notice of Mr. Hugh 

 Cuming, (brother of the late Mr. John Cuming, of Truro) a distinguished 

 conchologist, and who had been a liberal contributor to the Royal Institution 

 and other scientific societies of Cornwall. 



