EOTAL INSTITUTION OF COENWALL. 



SPEING MEETING, 



1866. 



The Spring Meeting of the Institution was held on Friday, the 

 25th of May, in the Council Chamber of the Truro Town Hall ; 

 and there was a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen. 

 Mr. Smirke, V.W., the President of the Institution, occupied the 

 Chair ; and there were also present : — Dr. Barham and the Eev. 

 T. Phillpotts, Vice-Presidents ; Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer ; Dr. Jago, 

 Secretary ; Messrs. H. Andrew, John James, A. Paull, and G. F. 

 Eemfry, members of the Council; Rev. W. Eogers, Eev. J. Ban- 

 nister, Rev. J. Carne, Rev. C. R. Sowell, Mr. Willyams, Mr. 

 Charles Fox, Mr. Carus-Wilson, Mr. P. P. Smith, Mr. H. Remfry, 

 Mr. N. H. Lloyd, Mr. S. Pascoe, Mr. R. Hosken, Mr. Hudson, Mr. 

 TannahiU, Mr. H. M. Whitley, Mr. D. G. Wliitley, Mr. Hughan, 

 and Mr. Snell. 



The President said he believed it was, ordinarily, the duty of 

 any person in the position he then occupied, to make a regular ad- 

 dress upon general matters connected with the Institution ; but he 

 was sorry to say he was disqi]Alified for delivering any such address, 

 in consequence of utter want of time for its preparation. Unfortu- 

 nately, he had been pressed lately to such an extent as really to 

 occupy all his time and attention ; and he wholly disclaimed any 

 such qualification as was possessed by a very eminent personage 

 and very great general — the being able to read, write, and dictate 

 at one and the same time, on half-a-dozen subjects to as many 

 difi'erent persons. He must therefore plead this practical difficulty 

 in excuse for what might otherwise appear disrespect in not making 

 any formal address. 



Among the objects on the table before him were the gold 

 lunulae and bronze celt found at Harlyn, near Padstow. It had 

 been his impression that, as this was the principal meeting in the 

 year for the reading of Papers, it would be desirable to make some 

 observations upon these lunulse ; but it had since occurred to Dr. 



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