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September 6. Cornish Telegraph contains an account of an Ornitho- 

 logical Eamble, by F. E. E., Trebartha, July 14, over Bodmin Moors to 

 Dosmary Pool. 



September 8, and following days. Annual Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion, at Birmingham. A Paper read on the Insulation of St. Michael's 

 Mount, Cornwall ; by Mr. Pengelly. A Eeport and Discussion, on the ex- 

 ploration of Kent's Cavern, Torquay. 



September 13. Cornish Telegraph publishes extracts from Mr. Pen- 

 gelly's Paper, read at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Association, 

 on the Insulation of St. Michael's Mount. — In the same number of the C. T., 

 a letter signed " Shearwater," states that two very rare English sea-birds, 

 the Manx Shearwater and the Stormy Petrel, breed in some of the further 

 islets of Scilly, that Seals are found there pretty frequently, that Herons 

 breed on the rocks, and that a pp,ir of Peregrine Falcons breed yearly on 

 Menavawr Island. 



September 13. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society.' 

 Meeting of Committee. Secretaries report that Mr. John Ley, of the Coast 

 Guard, stationed at Newlyn, had presented to the Society a stalk-eyed 

 Crustacean, which Professor Bell had pronounced to be the first specimen 

 of Scyllarus Arctus (a Mediterranean and West Indian species) captured in 

 Great Britain. 



September 19. Exhibition of a fine specimen of the Great American 

 Aloe in flower, at Penmere, Falmouth, the residence of Mr. Alfred Lloyd 

 Fox. Flower nearly 20 feet in height. — The West Briton of September 29, 

 records that an American Aloe was in blossom at Holyvale, St. Mary's, Scilly. 

 It was nearly 30 feet in height ; the stalk very straight ; the flowers large 

 and of a yellow shade. 



September 27. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter on the etymology of 

 " Carreg Killas."' — The same pajDer records a recent capture, at Scilly, of 

 the Surf Scoter (Oidemia perspiclllata). 



September 28 and 29. Woodcocks shot in the neighbom'hoods of Hayle 

 and Mount's Bay. 



October 2. Conversazione of the Plymouth Institution, at the Athenaeum • 

 Mr. Eooker presiding. Among interesting objects exhibited, were rubbings 

 of Monumental Brasses, contributed by the Eev. M. B. Hutchison and Mr. 

 Brent ; those of the former being foreign, and those of the latter chiefly 

 English. 



October 2. A Woodcock shot near Truro ; and another, on the same 

 day, at Coswarth, Lower St. Columb. 



October 5. A new Church at St. Cleather, consecrated by the Eight Kev. 

 Dr. Chapman, late Bishop of Colombo. 



October 5. Portunus arcuatus and P. corrugatus captured in Mount's Bay. 



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