CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 105 
February 9. West Briton publishes, under the heading ‘‘ Cornubiana,” 
a communication signed ‘ Tre,” concerning Mulfra Hill, near Penzance, and 
its antiquities. ; 
February 9. Annual Meeting of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 
Mr. Charles Fox elected president, fora term of three years; Mr. J. St. - 
Aubyn, M.P., Rey. T. Phillpotts, Mr. Pendarves Vivian, M.P., Mr. W. P. 
Dymond, F.M.S., and Mr. G. Fox, elected Vice-Presidents. 
February 11. The Atheneum records that at a meeting of the Archeo- 
logical Institute, Sir Edward Smirke in the chair, Rev. W. Iago exhibited an 
Ivory Casket, belonging to the Bodmin Corporation, said to have been made 
to contain the bones of St. Petroc when they were brought back to England 
from Brittany in the 12th Century. Mr. Iago also exhibited a “‘ skippet”’ 
found in the parvise of Bodmin Church, and a leather-covered case, probably 
of the 16th century, from Lanivet.—At the same meeting, Mr. W. H. Tre- 
gellas exhibited a collection of Roman Coins lately found in a vessel of 
coarse earthenware, at Allington Manor, near Southampton. 
February 13. Western Morning News publishes a notice of a lecture, by 
Mr. Spence Bate, F'.R.S., to the Exeter Naturalists’ Club, on ‘‘ The Prehis- 
_ toric Antiquities of Dartmoor.” 
February 13. A very brilliant meteor visible throughout the West of 
England, shortly after nine o’clock, p.m. It appeared near the star Bellatrix 
and proceeded in a northernly direction. Its flight was attended by corusca- 
tions, and its trail was visible during several seconds after the body had dis- 
appeared. 
February 18. Cornwall Gazette records that a Hooded Crow had 
recently been shot near Liskeard. 
February 22. Cornish Telegraph states that the Ivory Casket from 
Bodmin excited so much interest that the Department of Science and Art 
sent to the Society of Antiquaries three smaller caskets, also in ivory, ‘ re- 
sembling in general arrangement the very interesting specimen from Corn- 
wall.” Mr. J.C. Robinson considers the box Sicilian work of the 11th or 
12th Century. 
February 22. Cornish Telegraph contains the following:—A New Eel, 
believed to be an addition to the Fauna of Great Britain, has been obtained 
from fresh water in the Scilly Isles, and has been exbibited to the Zoological 
Society by Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier. Dr. Giinther refers it to a variety of 
Anguilla vulgaris, called A. Cuviert, by Kaup. 
February 22. Cornish Telegraph contains a notice of the Praed Family, 
from 1620. 
February 22. Cornish Telegraph records the recent destruction of a 
Bittern, in the meadows near Washtford, Williton, Somersetshire. The bird 
measured, when on its feet, 42 inches in height.—Also, that a Glaucous 
Gull (Larus glaucus), a native of Iceland, had been shot at Mainporth, near 
Falmouth. ° 
February 25. Western Morning News states that the Reverend W. Iago 
had recently recovered, in London, a parish register of Feock, lost many 
years ago, and recording baptisms, marriages, and deaths during the incum- 
bencies of three vicars (Jackman, Coode, and Ange) between 1671 and 1724. 
February 25. Cornwall Gazette publishes a biographical notice of the 
late Mr. Francis Barham, of Bath, a literary gentleman recently deceased. 
