108 - CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
July 27. West Briton publishes a letter signed “Inquirer,” on ‘ The 
Insulation of St. Michael’s Mount.” 
July 29. The Antiquary contains a paper “On a circle of stones, 
called the Dawns Mén, near the Land’s End.” 
July 31. Western Morning News quotes from “ Land and Water,” an 
account by Mr. Matthias Dunn, of Mevagissey, of the recent capture of a 
Torpedo at that place, in a ground seine. 
August 2. Western Morning News publishes an account of “The 
Gwavas Manuscripts.” 
August 2, and following days. 41st Annual Meeting of the British 
Association, at Edinburgh; President, Professor Sir William Thompson. 
Among the Papers read were the following:—Seventh Report of the Com- 
mittee for the Exploration of Kent’s Cavern; Mr. W. Pengelly. On the 
said-to-bé Tailless Trout of Islay; Mr. C. W. Peach. The influence of the 
Moon on the Rainfall; Mr. W. Pengelly. Additions to the list of Fossils 
and Localities of the Carboniferous Formation in and around Hdinburgh ;. 
Mr. C. W. Peach. 
August 8. Western Morning News publishes a deseription of the new 
Longships Lighthouse, Land’s End. 
August 8. Meeting of the British Medical Association, at Plymouth ; 
Mr. Whipple, of Plymouth, President. 
August 12. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 39th Annual Meeting ; 
Mr. Charles Fox presiding. 
August 14. Members of the British Medical Association visit St. 
Michael’s Mount, and, on invitation from Mr. Congdon, of Marazion, partake 
of a déjeuner in the Chevy Chace Room, by permission from Sir Edward 
St. Aubyn, Bart. 
August 14. Western Morning News publishes a letter signed ‘‘ H. W.”, 
on ‘‘ The Gwavas Manuscripts.” 
August 14. Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devonshire. Annual 
Meeting at Falmouth; Mr. A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P., presiding. A Paper 
on “‘ The comparative health and longevity of Cornish Miners ” was read by 
Mr. Robert Blee, of Truro. : 
August 14 and 15. Royal Institution of Cornwall. Excursion to Pen- 
zance, Botallack, and St. Ives, and to antiquities in the vicinity of these 
places, (See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. xiii, and 
54th Annual Report. 
August 15. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Literature, and Art. Tenth Annual Meeting, at Bideford; Rev. Canon 
Kingsley, M.A., F.L.8., F.G.8., President. The following papers were read: 
—A Brief Sketch of the Early History of Bideford; J. A. Parry. The Fall 
and Restoration of the Cromlech at Drewsteignton, 1862; G. Wareing 
Ormerod, M.A., F.G.S. Notes on the Population of Devonshire; A. 
Hamilton. On the name Britain and the Pheenicians; Richard Edmonds. 
Notice of the firing at the Battle between the Alabama and Kersage, off 
Cherbourg, June 19th, 1864, being heard in Devon; G. Wareing Ormerod, 
M.A., F.G.S. The Rainfall on the low lands of the Estuary of the Taw; 
N. Whitley, F.M.S. On certain instances of concentric lamination observed 
amongst the pebbles on Northam Ridge; Townsend M. Hall, F.G.8., &c. Is 
the Cavern at Pridhamsleigh, near Ashburton, worth exploring? J. S. Amery. 
