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1592 : — " In September October and November was the church thoroughly 

 painted within and divers texts of scripture wroten on the pillars, and the 

 juylds began to be painted." 



July 16. Western Morning News publishes an account of " A Trip to 

 the Scilly Islands," by a correspondent, " H." 



July 17. Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, in London ; the Marquis Camden, President. 



July 28. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 33rd Annual Meeting ; 

 Mr. W. H. Bond presiding. A portrait of the late Mr. Davies Gilbert pre- 

 sented to the Society by his daughter, Mrs. Enys, of Enys. 



July 28. A young whale, 16 feet long and 13 in girth, shot in shallow 

 water two or three miles above Dartmouth. 



August 1. Western Morning Neius publishes a letter signed " Y," on the 

 " History and Statistics of Cornwall," and especially on the holding of 

 Assizes in Cornwall. 



August 8. A communication on the Lizard District, signed " H," in the 

 Western Morning Neivs. 



August 8, 9. Devon Association for the Advancement of Literature, 

 Science, and Art. Fifth Annual Meeting, at Tavisiock ; Earl Eussell, president. 

 — The following Papers were read : — Language, with special reference to the 

 Devonian Dialects ; Sir J. Bowring, LL.D., P.E.S. — The Poor Laws, with the 

 effects of Union Eating in Devon ; Mr. E. Vivian, M.A. — Axchsological 

 Notes on Ta^dstock and its neighboui-hood ; Mr. E. Appletou, F.I.B.A.— The 

 Principles of Ehythm, as applied to English Verse ; Mr. T. F. Barham, 

 M.D. — Photographic Portraiture ; Dr. Scott. — St. Michael's Chm-ch, Brentor ; 

 Mr. J. Hine, C.E. — Celtic Eemains on Dartmoor; Mr. T. Kelly. — Traces 

 of Tin Streaming in the vicinity of Chagford ; ]\Ir. G. W. Ormerod, M.A., 

 F.C.S.— Eaised Beaches ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., F.G.S., &c.— Two Species 

 of Fresh-water Polyzoa new to science; Mi-. E. Parfitt. — A Flint-find in a 

 Submerged Forest-Bed of Barnstaple Bay; Mr. H. S. Ellis, F.E.A.S.— An 

 Attempt to approximate the date of the Flint Flakes of Devon ; Mr. Spence 

 Bate, F.A.S., &c. Dependence of the amount of Ozone on the dii-ection of 

 the wind; Professor C. Daubeny, M.D., F.E.S. — Lithodomous Perforations 

 above the Sea Level in South Eastern Devonshire ; JVIi-. W. Pengelly, F.E.S. , 

 &c. — The rate of Magnetic Development in Iron whilst under the action of 

 electrical cm-rents ; Mr. J. N. Hearder. — A recently discovered Submerged 

 Forest in BigburyBay; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., &c. — Eesults of Experi- 

 ments on hybridizing certain varieties of Pear; Dr. W. E. Scott. — The Tri- 

 assic Outliers of Devonshire ; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.E.S., &c. 



Atigust 9. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter signed " Christopher 

 Cooke," concerning Cromlechs near Liskeard, at Lanyon, and at Chun, and 

 other antiquities. 



August 10. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. An 



