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The Society have again to thank the many donors of gifts 

 to the library and museum, among whom may be mentioned 

 Capt. James Eoberts of Perranporth, whose previous gifts are 

 of such great interest. He has now presented a specimen of 

 fungus, 3 feet by 2 feet, from a tree in Demerara, a setten- 

 wood stick from the same neighbourhood, which is so heavy 

 that it will sink in water, and a bag made from the skin of an 

 otter by a native of Demerara, British Guiana ; specimen of 

 cloth made from the bark of a tree, and a sarang of silk cloth^ 

 both made by natives of the Malay Peninsula ; a specimen of 

 pottery from old mine workings at Silensing, which is totally 

 different from anything of the kind now used in the country, and 

 four tusks of hippopotami from Delago Bay. 



Mr. G. W. Eustice, F.Gr.S., has given two cups, beautifully 

 carved and engraved, made from cocoa-nuts, several vessels made 

 of horn softened and moulded by natives of the Republic of 

 Colombia, and some fine specimens of gold in quartz from 

 Venezuela, Ecuador, and the Republic of Colombia. 



Mr. Share's gift of a portrait of Richard Lander is a nice 

 addition to the series of portraits of Cornish worthies hanging 

 in the library. It is a proof engraving published in 1835, by 

 Colnaghi & Son, Pall-Mall, London, engraved by C. Turner, 

 A.R.A., from a painting by William Brockedon, F.R.S., and 

 represents the celebrated explorer in his African costume. 



Sir Richard Tangye has presented a beautiful impression of 

 the official seal of Sir Walter Raleigh in his dual capacity of 

 Lord Warden of the Stannaries and Governor of the Island of 

 Jersey, very tastefully mounted in an ebony frame, a MS. 

 letter, dated 1760, April 23rd, Whitehall, written by the Earl of 

 Holdernesse, relating to the calling out of the militia in the 

 County of Cornwall ; and a copy of his book, recently published, 

 entitled "Notes Illustrative of the Cromwellian Collection in the 

 possession of Sir Richard Tangye." 



Mr. John D. Enys has once more increased the indebtedness 

 of the Institution to him by presenting a fine mezzotinto 

 engraving of Capt. Rogers in the Windsor Castle, a portrait in 

 oils of William G\^iavas, Barrister of the Middle Temple, 

 London, which is the only known portrait of this distinguished 



