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Ladle which had no doubt been used in the process of casting. 

 There was in the Museum, the very interesting block of tin, in the 

 form in which tin was exported from this part of the world in the 

 time of Diodorus Siculus ; this was somewhat in the shape of the 

 old die, or tessera. Then, of later date, there was the Jews-house 

 tin, in the shape of one third of a sugar-loaf cut through vertically. 

 And at a later period still were used the moulds to which Mr. 

 Kelly's Paper referred. — Among these were two longitudinal 

 moulds for making small bars of tin, similar to such as were cast 

 now. — In all the places where such moulds were found, there had 

 formerly been an abundance of stream tin, and also of wood ; and 

 there was no doubt that the smelting was effected by m-eans of 

 charcoal. The houses described by Mr. Kelly were doubtless the 

 original smelting-houses ; and it was remarkable that the dis- 

 coveries referred to had all been made on the borders of Cornwall 

 and Devon. It would be remembered that in a Paper by Mr. 

 Hunt, read at our Cambrian Meeting, with reference to the Islands 

 mentioned by Diodorus Siculus, as, like St. Michael's Mount, only 

 separated from the shore by the rise of the tide, he specified three 

 such instances on the southern coast of Cornwall and Devon which 

 might have been thus designated ; and to these was added an Island 

 in the Estuary of the Yealm. It was interesting to obtain evidence 

 now that, at an early period, the smelting of stream tin had been 

 carried on high up those tidal streams which Mr. Hunt had in- 

 ferred, from their geographical character, to have been included 

 in the localities referred to by Diodorus Siculus. 



The following other Papers were then read : — 



Ornithology of Cornwall. By Mr. E. Hearle Kodd. 



Mineralogy. By Mr. R. Pearce, Junr. 



The Eev. J. Bannister said that he had prepared a Paper on 

 a subject in which he felt great interest — that of the Nomenclature 

 of Cornwall. At that late period of the meeting, however, he 

 would not occupy their time by reading it, but would only briefly 

 refer to it, and then leave it with the Institution to be afterwards 

 published in their Journal, if it was thought worthy of a place 

 there. As showing the amount of research which Mr. Bannister 

 has applied to the science of Cornish nomenclature, it may be 

 stated, from his Paper, that in one department alone — the names 

 derived from geographical and topographical characteristics and 

 peculiarities — he has collected from histories, maps, surveys, 

 registers, &c., some 2,400 names beginning with Tre and its 

 variations Trem, Tret, Tres, Tref, &c. ; 500 with Pen ; 400 with 



