96 CHEONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA, 1865. 



October 11. Cornish Telegraph quotes from the Gentleman''s Magazine, 

 a paper by Mr. J. H. Nankivell, on " Local Names." 



October 18. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed "W. Pendrea," 

 from Notes and Queries, on " The Noys of Cornwall." Letters concerning 

 Attorney General Noy, and his descendants, appeared in the Cornish Tele- 

 graph of the following dates : 



November 15, . . from " Nepos." 

 ,, 22, , . ,, " Observer." 

 29, .. „ "Nepos." 

 December 6, . . „ " Nepos," and " Enstic." 

 20, .. „ "Nepos." 

 ,, 27, .. ,, "Eusticus." 



October 20. Pirimela denticulata captured in Mount's Bay. 



October 24. Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. Annual Meeting, 

 at Penzance ; Mr. Charles Fox, President. The following Papers were read : 

 'On the Transition and Metamorphosis of Eocks in the Land's End District ; 

 Miss E. Carne. Subterranean Temperature at Morro Velho, in Brazil ; Mr. 

 Wm. Jory Henwood. Earthquakes and Extraordinary Agitations of the Sea; 

 Mr. E. Edmonds. 



October 25. Cornish Telegraph publishes a Paper by Mr. Eichard Ed- 

 monds, on Earthquakes and Extraordinary Agitations of the Sea, (read at 

 the Meeting of the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall). 



November 3. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 

 Annual Meeting ; Eev. M. N. Peters, President. Papers by Mr. E. Hearle 

 Eodd were read, on Eare Birds taken in the District, and on the Occurrence 

 of the Surf Scoter {Oidemia perspicillata) for the first time in England. Mr. 

 J. T. Blight read a Paper on " Ancient Eock Markings." * Eeported acquisi- 

 tions : Jaws of Hammer-beaded Shark ; two specimens of the Lumpsucker ; 

 specimens of the Opah, or King Fish; Angler, or Fishing Frog; and 

 Scyllarus arctus. 



November 14. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Annual Meeting; Mi', 

 Augustus Smith, President, in the Chair. 



November 14. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes at 

 Truro, by Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P. 



November 18 and 19. Swallows playing about Newlyn, near Penzance, 

 "as if it was summer." — Swallows again visited Newlyn, on the 23rd 

 December. 



* Mr. Blight has since found an example of these markings, or "cup- 

 carvings " on a rock near a gi-oup of strangely fortified hut-circles, in the 

 Land's End District ; and we hope that when he shall have had an op- 

 portunity of again examining the spot, in favoiirable weather, we may be 

 favoured by him with an illustrated account of this interesting discovery. 



