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ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 
SPRING MEETING, 
1872. 
This Meeting was held, in the Library of the Institution, at 
noon on Saturday the 18th of May. The Chair was occupied by 
the President, Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P. for West Cornwall ; 
and there were also present, (besides many ladies) :—Mr. W. 
Jory Henwood, F.R.S., and Dr. Jago, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents ; 
Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer; Mr. Whitley, and Rev. J. R. Cornish, 
M.A., Secretaries; Mr. H. M. Whitley, Assistant Secretary ; Dr. 
Barham, Rev. Dr. Bannister, F.S.A., Rev. W. Iago, L.S., Soc. 
Ant. Lond., Mr. Alexander Paull, and Mr. H. O. Remfry, Mem- 
bers of the Council; and Mr. J. G. Chilcott, Mr. J. H. Collins, 
F.G.S., Mr. W. P. Dymond, Mr. H. T. Ferguson, Mr. W. H. 
Jenkins, (Mayor of Truro), Mr. J. B. Job, Rev. T. Phillpotts, 
Mr. G. F. Remfry, Mr. H. E. Remfry, Rev. H.S. Slight, Mr. 
Augustus Smith, Mr. Snell, Mr. 8. Symons, Mr. D. G. Whitley, 
Mr. R. N. Worth. 
The PRESIDENT, declining, on this occasion, the delivery of a 
formal address, made some remarks concerning proposed legisla- 
tive enactments affecting this County,—the “Mines Regulation 
Bill,” and, (more germane to the objects of this Institution), a 
Bill prepared by Sir John Lubbock, but not before Parliament, 
“to provide for the better preservation of historical monuments 
and objects of antiquity in Great Britain and Ireland.” 
The Bill relating to the Regulation of Mines had been brought * 
on in three successive sessions of the House of Commons, and its 
provisions had been frequently discussed in this County. It had 
been subjected to various alterations and (as was considered in 
Cornwall) improvements; it having been the endeavour of the 
Cornish Members, either by conference with the Minister in charge 
of the Bill, or by ordinary process in the House of Commons, to 
have such amendments introduced as would suit the requirements 
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