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two Streams the children of Gwennap used to christen their dolls 

 on Good Friday. 



Mr. Jennings : It is done still. 



Mr. Thurstan 0. Peter said that people in the Mining Division 

 were full of folk-lore and the wildest superstitions. People 

 would not stop a cut from bleeding with a half-crown, but 

 would do so with a florin because it had a cross on it. He 

 proposed a vote of thanks to contributors of papers and to 

 donors of gifts to the library and museum. This was seconded 

 and carried. 



The Chairman called attention to several objects placed 

 upon the table for exhibition, kindly lent by Sir Eichard 

 Tangye. Amongst these were an old tinder-box, with flint and 

 steel, used before the invention of lucifers, and an imitation of 

 it made in the present day at Birmingham for the natives of the 

 "West Coast of Africa. There was also a Dutch specimen of the 

 16th century, and a bundle of the old sulphur matches, 

 sharpened and dipped at both ends. 



Fine mistletoe, from Enys, was also shewn, descended from 

 seeds introduced into Cornwall over a century ago. 



The Moorish tiles from Spain, which had been presented 

 some time ago by Mr. Osborne, might now be seen arranged in 

 frames in the entrance hall of the Institution, and a comparison 

 of them with the tile found, some years back, in the rood-loft 

 of Luxulyan Church, and presented by Eev. J. K. Eashleigh, 

 would shew that the make and pattern in both instances 

 were identical 



The Chairman was thanked on the proposition of 

 Archdeacon Cornish. 



PEESENTS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Fragments of Pottery, Charred Wood, and a piece of ") 



Jasper, from huts in an Ancient British Village > Lord Falmouth. 



near Kynance j 



Two Carved and Engraved Cups made from Cocoa-nuts, 



Ash Tray and Cover, Cup and Saucer and Tray 



made of horn, softened and moulded ; all the above I Mr. G. W. Eustice, 



were made by natives of the Republic of Colombia ^ F.G.S., St. Agnes. 

 Six Specimens of Gold in quartz, from the Eepublic of 



Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador 



