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ANNUAL MEETING. 

 November 25th, 1890. 



Report of the Council. 



This Society has now well advanced into the 73rd year of 

 its existence, and the Council in presenting their 72nd Annual 

 Report have very great pleasure in being able to announce that 

 the present position of the Royal Institution in Cornwall is 

 eminently satisfactory, for if the increase of members be regarded, 

 the large additions to the library by donations and exchanges, 

 together with the many valuable, rare, and costly gifts to the 

 museum, it will be found that at no previous period in the history 

 of the society has a more encouraging state of things prevailed, 

 or a more useful work in connection with it been carried on. 



The Society has to record with regret the deaths of several of 

 its members, many of whom have been associated with it for 

 very lengthened periods. 



Sir Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S., of Marazion, and 

 Kensington Gardens, London, occupied a front rank in the 

 scientific world, as the leading authority on mineralogy and 

 mining. He held high public offices, as chief mineral inspector 

 for the Crown, and chairman of the Royal Commission on 

 accidents in coal mines. Of the Geological Society of London 

 he was successively Secretary, President, and Foreign Secretary. 

 In Cornwall Sir Warington was a strong supporter of its 

 Geological Society at Penzance, and was a Vice-President of the 

 Royal Institution at Truro, examining its museum from time to 

 time. 



Mr. Thomas Cornish was well-known throughout Cornwall 

 for his great and varied attainments — of him it was well said 

 that he was a born naturalist. He was undoubtedly the greatest 

 local authority on ichthyology, and well versed in ornithology. 

 He was a frequent contributor to the Journal of this society, and 

 amongst his papers published may be mentioned '• The Lanisley 

 letters "; "The fishes of West Cornwall"; "Cornish curiosities"; 

 and "The Mackerel fishery," — interesting contributions on these 



