AimiTAL MEETING. 27 



In the Museum the work of renovating and re-labelling the 

 specimens has been continued. The interiors of the whole of 

 the cases have been cleaned, and several, in which the linings 

 had become very unsightly, have been painted. It is proposed 

 gradually to do away with the paper linings in the antiquarian 

 room and have all the interiors painted, by which means the 

 specimens will be shown to much greater advantage. 



The thanks of the society are once more due to the many 

 generous donors, from whom gifts have been received since the 

 last annual meeting. Amongst these should be mentioned Mrs. 

 Sharp, of Kensington Gardens, London, who has been a constant 

 benefactor to the museum for a number of years, Her gift 

 includes a number of curiosities from India and Barbadoes. 



Mr. Osborne, recently of the Eio Tinto Mines, Spain, who 

 has at various times given articles of great scientific and 

 antiquarian interest, this year sends several old Roman vases, a 

 tear bottle, and a Roman lamp, which he obtained from some of 

 the graves in the old Roman workings in the Eio Tinto Mines. 



A case containing the seals of Archdeacons Moore, Short, 

 Sheepshanks, Phillpotts, and Hobhouse, as well as those of the 

 Lepers' Hospital, St. Lawrence, Bodmin, and John Harris, Dean 

 of St. Burian in 1717, presented by Miss Collins, at the request 

 of her father, the late Mr. John Basset Collins of Bodmin, is 

 especially worthy of mention. 



Mr. T. Y. Keam, a former inhabitant of Truro, who a short 

 time since presented a number of articles of North American 

 Indian manufacture, has given two specimens of a fine-grained 

 red sandstone from Arizona, containing the impressions of some 

 two-toed animal. These are of special value as they were 

 obtained by Mr. Keam himself, after a great deal of trouble, 

 from a stratum of sandstone underlying some 600 feet of green, 

 white, and red sandstones and shales, which was previously 

 supposed to be unfossiliferous. Professor Woodward considers 

 they are of comparatively recent date, geologically, and Mr. 

 Keam intends to have the neighbourhood examined by a 

 practical geologist, so we may expect to receive some further 

 information respecting them. 



