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botanical, ornithological, geographical, and mineralogical, that 

 there seemed to be no end of fields open for such study, and it 

 was a good thing that the several societies took each its separate 

 department and met together to bring, as it were, into one and 

 to one head, the results of study during the year. 



The following papers, which are printed in the present 

 issue of the journal, were then read. " Shafts and Shaft 

 Sinking," by Mr. W. Hopwood, A.E.C.S., representing the 

 Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society ; " The Camps in Cornwall,'' 

 by Eev. S. Baring-Gould, representing the Eoyal Institution of 

 Cornwall ; " The Men who made Cornish Mines," by Mr. J. B. 

 Cornish, representing the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. 



Mr. W. Thomas, secretary of the Mining Association, said 

 that Mr. D. A. Louis, who was to have read a paper on "The 

 Gold Industry of the Urals," on behalf of the Mining Association 

 and Institute of Cornwall, was prevented by illness from giving 

 his paper, which he would, however, deliver at a subsequent 

 meeting. 



Mr. J. D. Enys presented to the Eoyal Institution of 

 Cornwall a vellum document recently purchased by him at a 

 sale in London, to be preserved as a Cornish relic. It bore the 

 signatures of James Watt and his partner, Matthew Boulton, 

 dated July 1st, 1782, and was the license of the Trevaskus Mine, 

 Gwinear, Cornwall, to use their engines for lessening the 

 consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines. The deed stated 

 the size of the cylinder to be 45 inches, the length 10 feet II 

 inches, with 6 strokes per minute, and the schedule of payment 

 Watts and Boulton received on the saving of coal, as compared 

 with the ordinary fire engine. The term fire-engine here 

 signifies a steam-engine. 



The Chairman was thanked on the proposition of Canon 

 Moor, seconded by Captain W. T. White, and a similar 

 compliment was paid to the readers of papers on the motion of 

 Mr. Howard Fox, seconded by Mr. C. Twite. 



