CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 

 1866. 



January 3. The Cornish Telegraph publishes "An Abstract of the 

 Weather at Penzance and its neighbourhood, for the year 1865 " ; from Mr. 

 W. Hoskin Eichards. 



January 3 and 10. Cornish Telegraph publishes Articles on Freemasonry 

 in the Middle Ages. 



January 4. Annual Conversazione of the Plymouth Institution and 

 Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society. Among objects exhibited, was, 

 on loan from Mr. Spence Bate, a collection of Flint Implements found at 

 Dosmary Pool and in Barnstaple Bay. 



January 8. The Western Morning Neios mentions that in the previous 

 week, a live turtle was washed ashore on the beach at Hemmick, in the 

 parish of Grorran. 



January 11 and 12. A most violent and destructive hurricane ; 40 vessels 

 wrecked in Torbay, with much loss of life. Disastrous accidents to shipping 

 at Plymouth, Penzance, St. Ives, and other ports in the western counties ; 

 and great damage at manj' places inland. 



January 15. Western Morning Nevjs records that, in the previous week, 

 a fine specimen of the Loxia coccothraustes, or Grosbeak, or Hawfinch, wa8 

 shot at Ham, the residence of the Eev. C. Trelawny. 



January 19. Seventh Annual Conversazione of the Plymouth Literary 

 Association; Mr. E. Stanley Gibbons, President. 



February 1. Cm-nwall Gazette publishes notices of the weather in West 

 Cornwall, in 1865, as recorded at Helston by Mr. W. P. Moyle. 



February 3 and 4. Violent and destructive thunder-storms in various 

 parts of Cornwall. The Castle on St. Michael's Mount, and the Churches at 

 Chacewater and Mabe, much injured by lightning. 



Fehmary 5. A specimen of the Brimstone Butterfly (Papilio Bhamni) 

 eaught at Lanner Moor, in the parish of Gwennap. 



February 6, Western Morning News publishes a Statement, from Mr. 

 Henry H. Treby, Goodamoor, of the Eainfall, during the year 1865, in the 

 basin or water-shed of the Biver Plym and its tributaries. 



