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November 18. Cornish Telegraph publishes, from the Clarendon Papers, 
“The Parishes in Penwith in 1645, with a list of the summes weekly they 
pay, and also the names of their ministers.” 
November 14. West Briton publishes, under the head of ‘Cornish 
Watering Places, &c.,” an account of ‘“‘ Mevagissey.” 
November 16. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes and 
Certificates at Truro, by the Bishop of Exeter. 
November 19. Royal Institution of Cornwall. 54th Annual General Meet- 
ing; Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., President, in the Chair. In the evening, a 
Conversazione in the Institution Lecture-Room, Mr. A. Pendarves Vivian, 
M.P., presiding. (See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No XIYV., 
and 55th Annual Report). 
November 21. West Briton publishes an extract from a review, in the 
Journal of Applied Science, of “The Life of Richard Trevithick, with an 
account of his inventions,” by Francis Trevithick, C.E. 
November 23. Death of Sir John Bowring, in the 81st year of his age, 
at Claremont, Exeter. 
December 1. Death of Sir Edward St. Aubyn, Bart., of St. Michael’s 
Mount, Cornwall, and Stoke Damerel, Devonshire. 
December 4. Cornish Telegraph publishes a note of enquiry, from “ E. 
H. W. Dunkin,” concerning a Brass Cross, formerly in the chancel of 
Sithney Church, and inscribed to the memory of Roger Trewythynnyk. 
December 7. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, from “ Christopher 
Cooke,’’ London, on ‘‘ Helston in 1797.” ; 
In our Chronological Memoranda for 1871, under date September 22, 
there appeared a letter (taken from the Western Morning News) from Mr. 
Rogers, concerning Cones recently formed on a Cedrus Deodara at Penrose. 
Mr. Rogers has since written to us as follows :-— 
Owing to some inscrutable reason, the Autumn of 1871 was unusually 
favourable to the development of the fructification of rare Conifers; and I 
observed, as early as August 30, several small catkins on a Cedrus Deodara 
at Penrose, raised by my father from Indian cones sent him by Dr. Wallich, 
late Curator of the Botanic Garden at Caleutta. These catkins had at 
first the appearance of females, being erect, compact, and of the form 
which the female is represented as exhibiting. They gradually, however, in- 
creased in size, and developed into undoubted male catkins, shedding 
pollen abundantly, and remaining on the branches until the end of November, 
when all gradually fell off. Fully 200 catkins appeared on this one tree; 
but I could not discover any upon other specimens, nor have I been 
able to detect a single female.—Reports have reached me of the occur- 
rence of male catkins on the Deodar, in 1871, at the following places :—at 
Enys (where a few female cones also appeared) ;-at Pendrea, and Tremedden; 
in Devon, at Pontey’s Nursery, and at Ham; also at Bristol, and at Mr. 
Murray’s, Wimbledon, Surrey.—Dr. J. D. Hooker, Director of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens at Kew, informed Mrs. Enys that the Deodar has repeatedly 
ripened its cones in this country, and that there is now growing at Kewa fine 
young plant, some nine feet high, raised from seeds produced 12 or 15 years 
ago from a tree of Sir Thomas Acland’s. Dr. Hooker adds that the occur- 
rence of the female catkin on the Cedrus Deodara is comparatively rare in 
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