110 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
September 80. Western Morning News records that ‘in the grounds of 
Mr. J. Vowler, Parnacott, is a specimen of the Araucaria imbricata, thirty 
years old, and about twenty-five feet high, which has this year produced 
cones for the first time. ‘Uhe tree is a female; the cones, twelve in number, 
are four to five inches in length, and are hedgehog-like masses of yellow- 
green spines, each spine being set in the imbricated spiral of the leaves, and 
a thick white resin constantly oozes from amongst them.” 
October 4. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter, signed ‘“‘ W.B.”, and 
entitled ‘The use of a Quoit,” concerning ‘ a fallen cromlech known in 
Zennor and its vicinity as Bosperhenas Great Quoit.” 
October 5. The 59th year’s Proceedings of the Plymouth Institution in- 
augurated by the President, Dr. C. A. Hingston. 
October 10. A Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) shot at Lizard-town, in 
a gutter. ° 
October 12. Mr. Spence Bate, F.R.S., delivered a lecture at the Ply- 
mouth Atheneum, on ‘ Pre-historic Dartmoor.” : 
October 16. Western Morning News publishes a letter, signed In- 
quirer, Liskeard,” on ‘‘ Pre-historic Dartmoor,” and the Gaelic origin of 
certain Dartmoor names. 
October 19. West Briton publishes a paper “On the name Britain, and 
the Phoenicians,” by Mr. Richard Edmonds. 
October 27. Western Morning News publishes letters, by ‘‘ Thomas 
Stratton,” Stoke, and ‘‘M,” on the derivation of ‘“‘Iktin;” and a letter, 
signed ‘‘8.B.”, on ‘ Pree-historic Dartmoor.” 
October 28. Western Morning News publishes a letter, on ‘‘ Pree-historic 
Dartmoor,” and the name ‘‘ Cad,” from ‘“ Plymouthian.” 
October 30. Western Morning. News publishes a letter, signed ‘‘S.B.”, 
on “ Prz-historic Dartmoor” and the name ‘ Cad.” And on October 31st, 
letters on ‘‘ Pre-historic Dartmoor,” from ‘‘ Plymouthian;” ‘M.A. of Ox- 
ford,” Exeter; ‘‘R.N.W;” and ‘‘D.” 
October 31. Death of Mr. William Rashleigh, of Menabilly and Point 
Neptune; formerly M.P. for Hast Cornwall. A memoir of the deceased, and _ 
of his ancestry from the 16th century, has been reprinted from the West 
Briton of November 9. 1871. He was buried in a rock tomb which he had 
caused to be excavated on the summit of St. Catherine’s Hill, Fowey. 
November 1. Western Morning News publishes a letter concerning the 
Bodmin Casket, from Rev. W. Iago, Secretary for Cornwall to the Society of 
Antiquaries, London. 
November 3. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 58th Annual 
Meeting, at Penzance; Mr. Hugh Seymour Tremenheere, C.B., F.G.S., 
President, in the chair. Among Papers read was one by Mr. Whitley, C.E., 
on ‘‘The Geology of Mount’s Bay.” The Secretary read a note which ac- 
companied a present from Mr. R. Pearce, of pitchblende or oxide of uranium 
found by him in Colorado.—Mr. Peach sent examples of glaciated quartz 
from Gorran, and expressed a hope that some gentleman would give atten- 
tion to the evidences of glacial action in Cornwall.—_—Mr. Warington Smyth 
was elected President. 
November 3. Western Morning News publishes a letter on ‘ Pre-his- 
toric Dartmoor,” from ‘8.B.” Also, a letter, from ‘‘M,” on the Bodmin 
Casket.” 
