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the display of the Cornish minerals. The numerous visitors 

 interested in the mineralogy of the county, will now have the 

 opportunity of seeing a representative collection of the mineral- 

 ogical wealth of Cornwall displayed in one case. This is the 

 realization of a long-felt want, and of an often expressed wish. 



As President of the Institution, I have much pleasure in 

 referring to the valuable labours of its curator, Mr. Henry 

 Crowther, which are so manifest in the altered and improved 

 state of the Museum. The work of renovation and classification, 

 now engrossing his attention, is from its very nature necessarily 

 slow, but when once accomplished, it will be of the utmost 

 utility and benefit. It is pleasing to know that Mr. Crowther's 

 services, during the past winter, have been secured by the 

 Mining School at Camborne, where he has weekly held classes 

 in mineralogy and geology. His scientific attainments are 

 also of the greatest service to visitors to the Museum, by the 

 intelligent information afforded them, and by the knowledge 

 imparted by him to the young scholars now so frequently found 

 in the rooms of the Museum. 



The Council of the Institution are always much gratified to 

 learn of the success of those who, at any time, have been con- 

 nected with us, and it is with much satisfaction that reference is 

 made to-day to Mr. Richard Pearce, H.B.M. Vice-Consul at 

 Denver, Colorado, U.S. Mr. Pearce has attained to considerable 

 eminence in his new home, and is regarded as one of the lead- 

 ing lights in science in America. Several important discoveries 

 have been made by him in metallurgy, and we are pleased to 

 learn that he looks back with the greatest pleasure to his former 

 connection with our Institution, to which he ever feels a debt of 

 deep gratitude, as shown by the numerous presents forwarded by 

 him to the Museum. Only recently, Mr. Pearce has liberally 

 presented the excellent case specially made for the display of the 

 Cornish minerals. 



The indefatigable energy of the Eev. William Iago, a past- 

 President of the Institution, has enabled him to decipher, after 

 many fruitless efforts, the inscription on the Miliary stone found 

 by him at Tintagel, affording as it probably does the best real 

 evidence of the occupation of Cornwall by the Romans. 



