MEETING OF CORNISH SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 225 



(4). " The formation of a Mining Eecord Office, as a 

 Supplement to the Geological Survey," by Mr. 0. 

 Twite, F.E.G.S., F,G.S. (for the M.A. & I.C.) 



The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, unfortunately, was unable to 

 attend, but his paper, on behalf of this Society, was of great 

 interest. In it he stated that the earliest traces of human 

 inhabitants in Cornwall shewed that they were a dark, short, 

 long-headed race, with faces mild, long, and agreeable. They 

 used weapons and tools of flint and polished chert, — ground into 

 required shape, — great proficiency being acquired in the 

 manufacture of great knives, lance-heads, arrows, and even 

 swords. They understood agriculture and weaving, and 

 possessed domesticated animals like most of our own. They 

 formed pottery by hand, — not on a wheel, - and the designs 

 were good. They were devoted to the cult of the spirits of the 

 dead, and, in honour of their deceased, they erected monuments 

 of unhewn stone, of surprising dimensions and dignity. Their 

 language was agglutinative. It had not reached that stage of 

 development attained by the Aryan races, in which infleetion 

 took place. The Ethnology of Cornwall resolved itself into an 

 admixture of — 



1. The dusky Ivernian, 



2. The Goidel Celt, 



3. The Brythonic Celt, in a limited degree, 



4. The Saxon, in a still more limited degree, 



5. Various adventitious elements ; due to the settlement of 



foreign sailors or miners, and possibly of a few 



Norman masters, as the Arundells, Beauchamps, 



Fortescues, &c. 



Many other interesting theories and statements were added, 



by the author of the paper, as well as recommendations for 



recording existing peculiarities, in furtherance of the science of 



Anthropology. 



A discussion ensued, in which Mr. John B. Cornish said no 

 doubt most of the Cornish population of to-day were not of the 

 pure Cornish origin — they were practically an amalgamation of 

 the Cornish and Anglo-Saxon. The amalgamation had been 



