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collection. Mr. W. P. Courtney kindly sent to the library a copy 

 of his work on "The Parliamentary Representation of Cornwall 

 to 1832." General Lefroy of Lewarne, Liskeard, gave a series of 

 mineral specimens from Tasmania and Western Australia. Mr. 

 Thomas Worth, of Truro, has to be thanked for several gifts, 

 including six volumes of the West Briton newspaper — from 

 1818 to 1832 ; Mr. Matthias Dunn for a specimen of old pottery, 

 and an example of the spotted Pay (Raia punctata, Day) ; the 

 discovery of this fish in Britain is due to Mr. Dunn. The Society 

 is indebted to Mr. Edmund Pundle, a member of the Council, 

 for a beautiful cast of this fish. Mr. James Osborne, F.G.S., 

 has enriched the museum with a specimen of the Gibbon Monkey, 

 the Flying Squirrel, the Slow-paced Lemur, and several rare 

 birds, all collected and preserved by him during his residence 

 in Burmah. The Pev. S. Pundle has given a carved stone mould 

 from Tregonning Hill. Mr. Chas. Barrett, the skull of a native 

 of the Maskeylene Islands. Mr. W. Barrett, Chapel House, a 

 copy of the Cornish portion of the Domesday Book. Mr. J. 

 H. James, a map of Truro Port and River. Mr. W. J. Clyma, 

 several engravings of Truro and Maps of the County. 



Our Society is again greatly indebted to the Government of 

 the United States. In our endeavour during the past year to 

 make complete the valuable Bulletins issued by its Geographical 

 and Geological Departments, every help has been afforded us, 

 and we have now on our shelves bound sets of its publications 

 as complete as we can possibly expect them to be made. Its 

 other gifts are as numerous and as valuable as ever, and many 

 very interesting acquisitions we owe to its generosity. 



From the Royal Society of Edinburgh we have received as 

 complete a set of its Proceedings as it had in print, with the 

 handsome offer to send on such parts as may be reprinted from 

 time to time. 



We have also to thank the Royal Dublin Society for the 

 first six volumes of its Scientific Proceedings, and for current 

 parts. The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club for its Annual 

 Reports and Proceedings from 1873 to 1887. The Quekett 

 Microscopic Club for its Journals from 1887 to 1889. The New 

 York Academy of Sciences, for the first five volumes of its 



