CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA, 111 
November 4. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, from ‘* Christopher 
Cooke,” London, on St. Michael’s Mount, and the lines in Milton’s “ Ly- 
cidas”’: ; 
‘‘ Or whether thou, to our moist eyes deny’d, 
Sleep’st by the fable of Bellerus old, 
Where the great vision of the guarded Mount 
Looks toward Namanco’s and Bayona’s hold; 
Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth.” 
November 4. Cornwall Gazette notices a lecture recently given at‘Bod- 
min by Rev. W. Iago, on ‘‘The Vestiges of Early Inhabitants.” The 
lecturer treated of rock testimony, wild beasts of the West of England, 
cannibals, caves, crannoges, fogous, cromlechs, circles and holed stones, 
earthworks, implements, weapons, ornaments and inscriptions, and evidences 
in foreign countries compared with the vestiges found in Cornwall. 
November 6. Western Morning News publishes letters on ‘‘Pre-historic 
Dartmoor,” from ‘G.W.O.”, Teignmouth; ‘“‘H.”, Hyde Park Terrace, 
Mutley ; and ‘J.J.C.” 
November 8. Western Morning News publishes a letter, signed “F.H.”, 
on the river name “ Thames;” and a letter on the “ Bodmin Casket,” 
from ‘‘ EH. H. H. Shorto,” Clerk of St. Petrock, Exeter. 
November 9. Western Morning News publishes a letter on the “Bodmin 
Casket,” signed ‘‘W.1.”, Bodmin. 
November 15. Royal Institution of Cornwall. Annual Meeting; Mr. 
W. Jory Henwood, F.R.S., President, in the chair. A letter was read, from 
Sir John Maclean, concerning a chapel in Trevalga Church; and observa- 
tions were made on the Mortality of Miners. The following papers were 
read: On a Sub-Marine Forest at Market Strand, Falmouth; Mr. H. M. 
Whitley, C.E. Ona British Celt found by Mr. F. Jope Rogers, near Hel- 
ston; by Mr. Albert Way, F.S.A. On an Urn found at Angrouse, in Mullion; 
Mr. W. C. Borlase, F.S.A. Mr. J. St. Aubyn, M.P., elected President for the 
ensuing year. In the evening, in the Institution Lecture-Room, a Conver- 
sazione, at which papers were read, on the Physical Geography of West 
Cornwall, on Botallack Mine, and on the Fishes of West Cornwall; and the 
Rey. W. Iago gave an account of Antiquities visited during the Autumn Ex- 
cursion, and of an Alabaster Carving at Mabe. (See Journal of the Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, No. xiii., and 54th Annual Report). 
November 16. West Briton publishes “Cornish Historie Tracts,” I., 
from EK. H. W. Dunkin, Kidbrooke, Blackheath. 
November 18. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, signed “ M.,” on St 
Michael’s Mount,” and the names ‘“ Mictis” and “ Ictis.” 
November 25. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes and 
Certificates at Truro, by Mr. Herbert W. Fisher, Vice- Warden. 
November 30. West Briton publishes a letter, from ‘“ Curiosus,” on the 
‘ Bodmin Casket,” and ‘‘ the Lykanthropist.” 
December 1. Western Morning News publishes a Lecture, by Rev. W. 
Tago, on ‘‘ The Bodmin Casket.” 
December 9. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, from “ Christopher 
Cooke,” on ‘“‘ Cornish Relics,” recording, as from the writer’s personal obser- 
vation, the Stone Monuments in Cornwall extant in 1871. 
December 16. The Antiquary contains an article, by “HE. H. W. 
Dunkin,” on ‘‘ The Bodmin Ivory Casket.” 
Decemder 23. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, signed ‘‘ The Mother 
of the Maidens,” concerning ‘‘ The Nine Maidens” near St. Columb; ‘ The 
Druids’ Aliar” near St. Issey; and a Cromlech in the parish of St. Breock. 
