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The following Papers were presented :— 
On the Original Use of the Mén-an-Tol, or Holed Stone, in the 
parish of Madron.—By E. H. Wise Dunkin. 
Notes on the similarity of some of the Cornish rock-names and 
miners’ terms to Irish words.—By G. Henry Kinahan, M.R.1.A., 
&e. 
Note on a remarkable balk of timber thickly covered with the 
Goose Barnacle, (Lepas anatifera, Linn.), drifted ashore in March, 
1872, at Ve entnor, Isle of Wight.—By Albert Way. 
Notes on the Ornithology of Cornwall, Ee May, 1871.—By E. 
Hearle Rudd. 
On two old Mining Patents.—By R. N. Worth. 
Chronicles of the Cornish Saints (VI.—S. Burian).—By Rev. 
John Adams, M.A. 
Chronicles of the Cornish Saints (VII.—S. Crantock).—By Rev. 
John Adams, M.A. 
Mr. H. M. WHITLEY, after reading the lists of Donations, &c., 
said that those members and friends of this Institution who 
attended the Excursion to the Cheesewring in 1868,* would 
remember that they paid a visit to the rock-hewn hut in which 
but they increase considerably in size when put on stronger food, particularly 
if this takes place at an early age. They are peculiarly a milking breed. 
On the chief farm at Ladegaardsoen the best milking cows have been of 
this race of late years; and one cow, ‘‘ Risoie,” milked annually, on an 
average of the three years, 1868, 1869, and 1870, 685. gallons English 
measure, with a living weight of about 790 Ibs. English weight, that is 
nearly 9 lbs. of milk for each 1 lb. living weight annually. Usually, how- 
ever, it is considered satisfactory when a cow weighing 6—700 lbs. (a) gives 
2000—2500 pots (a) of milk on regular good food. A report from Mr. 
Lindequist (government farm superintendent) for 1866, states that six Thele- 
mark cows, from various districts, each gave more than 3000 pots in one 
year ;—one of them even 3584 pots (761 gallons).—The greatest defect in 
the Thelemark breed is that it furnishes inferior animals for the slaughter. 
Ayrshire bulls have been used successfully for crossing, and the mixed 
progeny has turned out extremely well; and, while the Ayrshire breed, as 
well in Sweden as in Norway, has of late years fallen into discredit on 
account of its liability to tubercular disease, no symptom of such disease 
has been observed in the mixed progeny. 
(a) 11b.=1.0981 avoirdupois. 1 pot=0.2124 gallon. 
® See the ‘“ Fifty-First Annual Report of the Royal Institution of 
Cornwall,” p. Xxiil. 
