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CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
1871. 
January 3. The Western Morning News publishes a ‘‘ Meteorological 
Summary for the year 1870.” 
January 4, The Cornish Telegraph publishes an ‘ Abstract of the 
Weather at Penzance and neighbourhood, for the year 1870”; by W. Hosken 
Richards. 
January 12. Conversazione of the Plymouth Institution at the Ply- 
mouth Athenzeum. 
January 14 and February 4. The Cornwall Gazette publishes articles 
entitled ‘‘ Cornwall Two and a Half Centuries ago.” 
January 14. Mr. John Maclean, F.S.A., receives from Her Majesty 
the Queen, at Osborne, the honour of Knighthood, in recognition of his 
merits, on his retirement from the public service, on pension, upon the aboli- 
tion of the office of Deputy Chief Auditor of Army Accounts. 
January 18. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice of the Roman Coins 
found, in 1825, near the estuary of Hayle. 
January 18. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed ‘‘ W. N.,” on 
the antiquity, in Keltic, of the story of ‘*Tom of Chyannar, the Tin 
Streamer,” a version of which, by ‘Old Celt,” had recently been published 
in successive numbers of the C. 7’. 
January 25 and February 1. Cornish Telegraph publishes ‘ Glimpses 
of the two Cornwalls;” a lecture on ancient and modern Cornwall, by Mr. 
J. M. Doble. 
January—July. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute, No. i., 
contains a paper by “‘ A. L. Lewis,” entitled ‘‘ A description of some Archaic 
Structures in Cornwall and Devon.” 
February 1. Cornish Telegraph contains an article on ‘‘The Hoar 
Rock in the Wood.” 
February 1. Western Morning News publishes a description, by Mr. 
J. Piers St. Aubyn, of Tintagel Church. 
February 1, 8,22; March 8, 15, 22; April 5; May 24, 31. Cornish 
Telegraph publishes ‘‘ Scraps of County History.” 
February 2. West Briton records that, recently, an American Bittern, 
(Botaurus lentiginosus), and a Red Grouse, (Lagopus Scoticus), had been 
shot near Liskeard. 
February 4. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from ‘ Christopher 
Cooke,” on ‘ Ictis Isle.” 
February 8. Cornish Telegraph publishes the tale, ‘Tom of Chyannar, 
the Tin-Streamer,” in Ancient Cornish, with a translation. 
