CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 279 



November 1. Cornwall Gazette records the recent capti;re of a Pilot Fish 

 at Padstow. 



November 2. West Briton publishes a letter from " Curiosus," on " Wall 

 Pictures in Churches," containing hints for copying or transferring them. 



November 13. An extraordinary and magnificent display of Aerolites. 



November 15. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Annual Meeting ; Mr. 

 Smirke, President, in the chair. The following Papers read : On the Flint 

 Flakes of Lyell's First Stone Period; by Mr. Enys. Antiquities of the 

 parish of Lanivet ; from Mr. N. Hare, jun. The Ancient Bishopric of Corn- 

 wall ; by Eev. J. Carne, M.A. Botanical Memoranda of the parish of St. 

 Clement ; by Mr. T. Cragoe. (See Journal of tlu Royal Institution of Corn- 

 wall, No. VII). 



November 15. A Lecture delivered at the Plymouth Institution, by Eev. 

 F. E. Anthony, M.A., on " The History of the Celtic element of our mother 

 tongue." 



November 16. West Briton publishes from " Curiosus," " A Hint to 

 Antiquaries." The writer points out a few of the most simple and reliable 

 methods that may suit the purposes of illustration and multiplication of 

 copies. 



November 30. West Briton publishes a letter from " Curiosus," on " An- 

 tiquities in Scotland and Cornwall," with relation to ancient Caves or Fogous, 

 and to the opening^f a barrow between Camelford and Stratton ; in it was 

 found a human skeleton of gigantic proportions in a stone chest, some three 

 or four feet long, two feet six inches wide, and about a foot deep ; with a 

 clay bottom, and a rough slab on the top. 



December 6. Death of the Eev. John Wallis, M.A., Vicar of Bodmin, 

 aged 77 years. 



December 7. Western Morning News records that Mi'. Jonathan Couch, 

 F.L.S., &c., had recently been awarded a gold medal for his contributions to 

 the Exposition held at Ai'cachon, near Bordeaux, illustrative of fish and fish 

 cixlture. 



December 12. At a Coimcil Meeting of the Penzance Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society, the Secretary reported the presentation to the 

 Society, by Mr. W. Michell, of two specimens of the Great Northern Diver, 

 shot in Mount's Bay. 



December 13, Cormvall Gazette publishes a Letter from " Christopher 

 Cooke," on the Cassiterides. 



December 14. West Briton publishes a letter from " Curiosus," on 

 " Photography and the Magic Lantern ; from an antiquarian and educational 

 point of view." 



