ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 
SPRING MEETING, 
1873. 
Tus Meeting was held, in the Library of the Institution, at 
noon on Friday the 16th of May. In the absence of the President, 
Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., M.P., the Chair was occupied by Dr. 
Jago, F.R.S., a Vice-President; and there were also present, 
(besides many ladies) :—Mr. R. Were Fox, F.R.S.; Mr. W. Jory 
Henwood, F.R.S.; Mr. Tweedy, Treasurer; Mr. F. V. Budge, 
Assistant Secretary; Dr. Barham, Rey. Dr. Bannister, Mr. 
Alexander Paull, and Mr. H. O. Remfry, Members of the Council ; 
Rev. H. 8. Slight, Rev. Allen Page Moor, Capt. Oliver, R.A., Mr. 
Reginald Rogers, Mr. Theodore Budd, Dr. Hudson, Mr. H. Spry 
Leverton, Mr. John James, Mr. 8. Pascoe, Mr. R. N. Worth, Mr. 
D. G. Whitley. 
The CHAIRMAN said he had heard with regret that the 
President, Sir John St. Aubyn, had found himself so circumstanced 
as to be unable to attend this Meeting; for, inasmuch as Mr. 
Seymour Tremenheere, the only Vice-President senior to himself, 
was also absent, it had devolved upon him to preside on this 
occasion ; and thus the audience would have to dispense with a 
prepared address from the chair, as he could venture no further, 
as an introduction to the business of the day, than to endeavour 
in a cursory way to indicate how the Institutional events of the 
past year connected themselves with this day’s proceedings, and the 
papers that would be read to-day, so far as their titles seemed to 
him to import, with the past doings of the society. 
By reference to the Number of the Journal of the Royal Insti- 
tution of Cornwall just issued, it would be seen that at the Spring 
Meeting of last year, the President had brought to their notice 
the Draft of a Bill for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, 
on which the opinion of this and kindred societies had been 
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