EOYAL INSTITUTION OE CORNWALL 



SPRING MEETING, 



1867. 



The Spring Meeting of the Institution was held on Tuesday, 

 the 14th of May, in tlie Council Chamber of the Truro Town 

 Hall. Mr. Smirke, V.W., the President of the Institution, oc- 

 cupied the Chair ; and there were also present, besides many 

 ladies : — Mr. Rogers of Penrose, and Dr. Barham, Vice-Presidents ; 

 Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer ; Dr. Jago, Secretary ; Rev. John Carne, 

 Rev. Dr. Bannister, Rev. H. S. Slight, Mr. Solomon, (Mayor of 

 Truro), Mr. Chilcott, Mr. J. T. Blight, Mr. N. H. Lloyd, Mr. W. 

 G. Dix, Mr. H. M. Whitley, Mr. Snell, &c. 



The President, adverting to the numerous objects of interest on 

 the table, said that this large display v/as, in great measure, owing 

 to donations which had recently been received from Mr. Rashleigh 

 of Menabilly, and which comprised various interesting objects 

 collected by that gentleman in clifterent quarters of the world in 

 which he had formerly travelled. Most of these were of such a 

 character that it would be found difficult to arrange them in the 

 Museum of this Institution. They were similar to those which 

 used to be placed in the large room at the entrance of the British 

 Museum, and which were called the Ethnological Collection ; and, 

 as they were characteristic of countries which Mr. Rashleigh had 

 visited, he was desirous they should be permanently preserved in 

 this Society's Museum. — There had also been presented to this 

 Institution a magnificent work — the 2nd Volume of the " Sculp- 

 tured Stones of Scotland," the numerous plates in which were of 

 remarkable beauty as works of lithographic art. The stones, 

 crosses, and so on, were of various dates ; and the earlier ones 

 were of very remarkable character, much more nearly approaching 

 to Irish antiquities of the same kind than those we were in the 

 habit of meeting with in tliis county. There were several sculp- 

 tured stones in Cornwall, and he hoped that search would not 



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