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79TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & COUNCIL'S REPORT. 



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The Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the 

 Museum Buildings, Truro, on Tuesday, the 23rd of November, 

 1897. 



In the absence of the President, The Eight Honorable 

 Leonard H. Courtney, M.A., M.P., Mr. John Davies Enys, 

 F.Q-.S,, the ex- President, was voted to the chair. There were 

 also present the Ven. J. E. Cornish, M.A., Archdeacon of 

 Cornwall, the Eevs. Canon Donaldson, M.A., Canon Moore, 

 M.A., E. Prior, B.A., S. Eundle, M.A., C. P. Eogers, M.A., 



D. G. Whitley ; Col. Bolitho ; Messrs. C. Barrett, H. Barrett, A. 

 Blenkinsop, T. Clark, W. J. Clyma, P. A. Cozens, J. T. 

 Cunningham, M.A. (County Council Lecturer on Fisheries), 

 P. H. Davey, H. Edwards, T. B. Hill, E.N. (Geological Survey), 

 H. James, T. D. Jenkins, P. Jennings, T. Lake, N. S. Laurie, 

 J. Osborne, P.G.S., Thurstan C. Peter, G. Eogers, W. Eose, 

 W. Eowe, H. H. Share, E.N., E. P. Whitley, B. WilHams; 

 Drs. P. Ohown, and Nevell E. Norway ; and several ladies, 

 including Mesdames H. Barrett, Buck, Cornish, Grylls, lago^ 

 James, Leverton, Moore, Paull, Share, Spencer ; the Misses 

 Blenkinsop, Buck, Enys, lago, Leverton, Paull, Prideaux-Brune, 

 Eogers, Tomn. Also the Eev. W. lago, B.A. (L.S. Soc. Ant.), 

 and Major Parkyn, F.G.S. (Honorary Secretaries), and Mr. 



E. A. Gregg (Curator). 



The Chairman regretted the absence of the President, and 

 of the Eev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A., who would be nominated 

 that day for the Presidency of the Society during the next two 

 years, in succession to Mr. Courtney, whose term of office 

 expired. He (Mr. Enys) sympathized with all those who, like 

 himself, felt the great loss which the Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society had sustained in common with a large circle of scientific 

 and other friends, by the death of Miss Anna Maria Pox, of 

 Penjerrick, Palmouth, foundress of the Polytechnic. 



