278 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA, 



October S. Cornish Telegraph records that a specimen of the " Qnll- 

 billed Tern " had recently been shot in Cornwall. 



October 4. Opening of the 1866-7 Session of the Plymouth Institution 

 and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society ; Mr. A. P. Prowse, Presi- 

 dent. 



October 4 and 18. Cornwall Gazette publishes letters on " Roche Eock," 

 from " Christopher Cooke," London. 



October 5. Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. Annual Meeting at 

 Penzance ; Mr. Charles Fox, President. The following Papers were read ; 

 On the Berehaven Mines near Cork; by Mr. W. Jory Henwood, F.E.S. On 

 the contorted strata of Hartland ; by Mr. Whitley, 



October 10. Cornish Telegraph publishes, from the Spectator, an Article 

 on " The West Country, from the Saxon to the Norman Conquest." 



October 12. West Briton publishes a letter, signed " Curiosus," on 

 " Treasure Trove in Cornwall," with reference mainly to a gold lunette found, 

 some years since, in the parish of St. Juliott. 



October 12. Mr. J. T. Blight, Mr. T. Cornish, and Mr. Drew, of Pen- 

 zance, discovered and partly opened a Fogou, at Treveneage, in the parish 

 of St. Hilary. 



October 26. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 27th An- 

 nual Meeting ; Mr. Le Grice, President. The following Papers were read : On 

 rare birds which had appeared in the neighbourhood during the year ; by Mr. 

 E. Hearle Eodd. — On Subterranean Chambers and Antiquarian Eelics ; by 

 Mr. J. T. Blight. 



October 26. West Briton records the occurrence of a rare British Bird — 

 the Glossy Ibis, at Scilly. 



October 26. At a meeting of the Penzance Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Society, Mr. J. T. Blight read a Paper on the recently discovered 

 Fogou at Treveneage. — At a monthly meeting of the Society's Council, in 

 November, a flint arrow-head found in course of the excavation at Treveneage 

 Cave, was produced; with a muUer (or topstoue of a handmill), the under- 

 stone of a similar mill, a celt, fragments of three distinct sorts of pottery, 

 and a quantity of bones and charcoal found at the same j^lace. 



October 30. Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Dr. Le Neve Foster 

 appointed Secretary, in place of Mr. Sydney Hodges, resigned. 



October 30. A Tunny shot in the river near St. German's Quaj'', by Mr. 

 Spencer. The fish measured 7 feet 8 inches in length, by 4 feet 8 inches in 

 girth, and weighed 316 pounds. 



October 31. Cornish Telegra^^h publishes, from Mr. E. Hearle Eodd, aa 

 account of the recent capture, at Scilly, of the Honey Buzzard [Buteo api- 

 vorus). 



