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Excursion, by members and friends of this Society, to the ancient mansion 

 of Godolphin ; Tregoning Hill and its remains of a Celtic Fortiiication (Caer 

 Conan) ; the Church and Chair of St. Germoe ; and Pengersick Castle. 



August 14. Examination of Barrows at Gwloweth, near Truro. (See 

 Journal of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, No. VI, p. 170). 



August 20. Western Morning News publishes a letter, from C. E. S., 

 concerning the family of " Pellew." 



August 22, and folloioing days. Annual Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion, at Nottingham ; Mr. Grove, President. — Among the Papers read, were 

 the following : On the supposed human jaw recently found near Dinant, in 

 Belgium ; Dr. Carter Blake. — The Geological Distribution of Petroleum in 

 America; Professor Hitchcock. — Raised Beaches; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S. 

 — The Report of the Committee for exploring Kent's Cavern, Torquay ; Mi'. 

 W. Pengelly, F.R.S. — An attempt to approximate the date of the Flint Flakes 

 of Devon and Cornwall ; Mr. Spence Bate. — A curious lode, or mineral vein, 

 at New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall; Dr. Le Neve Foster. The pe- 

 culiarity of this lode is that it consists of breccia containing rovmded pebbles. 

 A crack appears to have opened underneath a bed of gravel or shingle ; peb- 

 bles and fragments of rock fell into the crack, and were cemented by chlorite, 

 tinstone, and other minerals. 



September 11. Some workmen engaged in laying down water-pipes at 

 the back of the Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth, discovered at the depth of about 

 2J feet, a stag's horn, and a considerable number of bones — all of which ap- 

 peared to have belonged to herbivorous animals, and some of them were 

 larger than those of the Red Deer. 



September 12 and 19. Cornish Telegraph publishes Articles from the 

 Spectator, on " The West Country before the Romans." 



September 14. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 34th Annual Ex- 

 hibition ; Mr. Rogers, of Penrose, presiding. 



September 17. Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. Annual 

 Meeting at Falmouth; Sir William Williams, Bai-t., President, in the Chair. 

 The following Papers were read : Observations on Mining ; Mr. Charles Fox. 

 The Tin-producing districts of Asia ; Dr. Le Neve Foster. The Mines of the 

 Gonnessa Mining Company, Sardinia; Mr. F. Gordon Davis. Notes on 

 New Rosewarne Mine ; Dr. Le Neve Foster. The Dislocation of Lodes and 

 Strata ; Mr. Samuel Bawden. 



September 20. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter signed " Curiosus," 

 on the destruction of Barrows near Truro. 



Septeviber 28. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes at 

 Truro by Mr. Peter, of Chyverton. 



October 1. Capture of a rare fish, Ausonia Cocksii, at Falmouth. (See 

 Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. VI, p. 163). 



