17s CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
May 4. Western Morning News records the recent capture of a Spinous 
(or Ground) Shark by a Mevagissey fishing-boat. It was captured by hook 
and line, and was forwarded by Mr. Matthias Dunn to Mr. Frank Buckland. 
May 7. Mr. Humphry Willyams, of Carnanton, died in London, in 
the 81st year of his age. 
May 18. Royal Institution of Cornwall; Spring Meeting. Mr. John 
St. Aubyn. M.P., President, in the chair. The President’s Address included 
observations on the ‘‘ Mines Regulation Bill,” and on a Bill, prepared by 
Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., ‘‘to provide for the better preservation of 
historical monuments and objects of antiquity in Great Britain and Ive- - 
land.” The following Papers were presented :—On the Original Use of the 
Mén-an-Tol, or Holed Stone, in the parish of Madron; Mr. EH. H. Wise 
Dunkin. Notes on the similarity of some of the Cornish rock-names and 
miners’ terms to Irish words; G. Henry Kinahan, M.R.I.A., &c. Note on 
a remarkable balk of timber covered with the Goose Barnacle (Lepas anati- 
fera, Linn.) drifted ashore in March, 1872, at Ventnor, Isle of Wight ; Albert 
Way. Notes on the Ornithology of Cornwall; Mr. HK. Hearle Rodd. On two 
old Mining Patents; Mr. R. N. Worth. Chronicles of the Cornish Saints 
(VI.—S. Burian, and VII.—§S. Crantock); Rev. John Adams, M.A. See 
Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. xiv. 
May 22. Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon. General Meeting 
at Redruth; Mr. A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P., President of the Association, 
in the chair. Mr. G. L. Basset, Tehidy, elected President for the ensuing 
year. 
May 29. Death of Mr. John Samuel Enys, of Enys, in the 76th year 
of his age. 
May 31. Western Morning News publishes a letter from Rey. F. C. 
Hingeston-Randolph, on ‘Daniel Gumb’s House,” (recently destroyed), 
“ and the Cheesewring.” 
June 8. Western Morning News publishes a letter on ‘‘ The Cheese- 
wring,” signed ‘‘ A. B.” It states that, fifteen years ago, Mr. Kendall obtained 
from the Duchy an order that the quarrymen should not approach the 
Cheesewring within limits set out on a plan. 
June 5. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter, signed “EH. H. W. 
Dunkin,” in support of his suggestion at the Spring Meeting of the Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, ‘that the Mén-an-Tol is the remnant of a sepulchral 
structure, and that the perforated stone was placed in such a manner ag to 
serve the purpose of an entrance stone.” “ 
June 6. West Briton contains a Memoir of the late John Samuél Enys, 
Esq., of Enys, and of the Enys family. 
June 7. A letter on ‘‘ The Trevelgué Tumuli,” appears in the Western 
Morning News. signed ‘‘ J. B. O.”, Hastings Villa, Cardiff. It suggests that 
the Tumuli should be kept open, and be protected. 
June 13. Western Morning News publishes the following letter, headed 
‘Historical Monuments” :— ‘‘Str, The mention of Bishop Bruere’s monument 
in Exeter Cathedral reminds me of his visit to Carlsbad, in Bohemia, in the 
thirteenth century. I read in the library of that much frequented watering 
place that some tin mines in the neighbourhood were discovered by a Cornish- 
man, who was in the suite of this bishop when he escorted the Princesg 
Isabella on her journey to Vienna to be married to the Emperor. The tin ig 
in conspicuous crystals, which facilitates the washing of the ore when winter 
