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April 18. Cornish Telegraph quotes from Mining Journal observations 

 in a letter from M. Simonin to M. Elie de Beaumont, on ancient tin- works 

 in Brittany ; with a suggestion that the Cassiterides might have been the 

 islands near the embouchure of the Loire. 



May 10. Cormvall Gazette records, that at a recent meeting of the Pen- 

 zance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, the Secretaries reported the 

 receipt from Mr. Curnow, of Addenda to his List of Mosses of the District, 

 previously published by the Society. 



May 25. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Spring Meeting ; Mr. Smirks 

 presiding. The following Papers were read : Eecent Flint-finds in the South- 

 west of England ; by Mr. Whitley. Celtic remains on Dartmoor ; by Mr. 

 Thomas Kelly, Yealmpton. Ornithology of Cornwall ; by Mr. E. Hearle Eodd. 

 Additions to the Fauna of Cornwall ; by Mr. Jonathan Couch. Mineralogy ; 

 by Mr. R. Pearce, jun. Nomenclature ; by the Eev. J. Bannister. — Observa- 

 tions were made by the President on the gold luniilse and bronze celt found 

 at Harlyn ; and, in the course of the proceedings, the following other sub- 

 jects were referred to : — A drawing of a rare fish, Ausonia Cuvieri ; an 

 ancient silver hurling-ball, with inscription in Cornish; capture of the 

 Golden Oriole at Scilly ; a Eeport on the Meteorological Department of the 

 Board of Trade ; Mr. J. T. Blight's discovery of rock-markings in West 

 Cornwall ; photographs of a human skull from Pentuan ; photographs of 

 British Antiquities near Vannes, Brittany; rubbings of ancient inscribed 

 stones and monumental brasses in Cornwall. (See Journal of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall, No. YI). 



June 15. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Presentation to 

 Dr. Le Neve Foster, of Agricola de Re Metallicd, from the Camborne Class, 

 as a mark of respect, and as a token of their appreciation of his ability as 

 their teacher. 



June 16. Death of Colonel Scobell, at his seat, Nancealverne, near 

 Penzance. 



June 21. Mr. Jonathan Couch, of Polperro, F.L.S., &c., elected a Cor- 

 responding Member of the Zoological Society of London. 



July 11. Western Morning News records that during a restoration of 

 Barnstaple Church there had been discovered a mural painting, in black 

 outline, over the north arch of the tower, behind some boarding and under 

 two coats of plaster. Owing to its mouldering state, only portions of three 

 figures could be preserved ; two of which represent a king and queen 

 crowned — -the king bearing a hawk on his left hand. When this discovery 

 was first made, portions of other figm-es were visible — two or three on the 

 left, and a so-called negro on the right. Partly from the di-ess, and the long 

 pointed shoe on one of the figures, the painting was supposed to date from 

 the 14th century. It may be noted here, that in the " Diary of Philip Wyot, 

 Town-Clerk of Barnstaple," published with Chanter's " Sketches of the Lit- 

 erary History of Barnstaple," occurs the following entry, under date of 



