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our Meetings and Journal will be found to contain a large amount 
of exceedingly valuable matter, bearing especially on the Mineral 
produce of the County, and on its Natural History and Antiquities. 
The Council have again had under consideration the question 
of the issue of a second number of the Journal in each year; but. 
after careful investigation they have decided on recommending 
that it be postponed until the increase in the number of annual 
subscribers shall clearly warrant it. They offer this advice with 
great regret, as the number of papers contributed in each year is 
much in excess of the capacity of a single number. 
Two Conversaziones were held during the past winter and were 
fairly attended. They afforded opportunities for the discussion of 
some objects of interest for which the ordinary meetings could 
not have afforded time. 
The Meteorological Observations, which date from 1838, and 
which increase in value every year, have been continued as usual 
by the Curator, Mr. Newcombe. : 
Since the last Report was issued the books belonging to the 
Institution have been removed from their former inconvenient 
situation to this Room in which we meet, which has been duly 
prepared to receive them; and, including as they do, the 
Transactions of various Societies, and other scientific publica- 
tions, they form a valuable collection available to members 
for reference. The Council hope gradually to extend this depart- 
ment, and they would be glad to receive donations of books bearing 
on scientific and antiquarian subjects, especially any relating to 
the county. On the table in the outer room are placed the current 
numbers of magazines and other publications, and on Monday 
Evenings both rooms are open until 10 o'clock p.m. | 
Mr. R. N. Worth, who has on many occasions favoured us with 
valuable communications on subjects relating to the county, has 
been elected a Corresponding Member. 
~The Council recommend that the office of a Second Assistant 
Secretary be created, and that Mr. William George Dix be elected 
to fill it. 
They cannot allow the President to retire from office without 
expressing their very high sense of the services which he has 
rendered to the Institution. Although living at some distance 
from Truro, he has personally discharged his duties with the most 
unremitting assiduity, whilst the Addresses delivered by him 
during his term of office will rank, from their high intrinsic value, 
and the original research which they display, amongst the most 
valuable of our publications. His great work on Metalliferous 
Deposits and Subterranean Temperatures, published under the 
auspices of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, has ap- 
