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requested by Sir John Lubbock, preliminarily to his bringing such 
a measure into the House of Commons. As it then stood, many 
of its clauses were thought to be unacceptable, or of very question- 
able use. Since then the author had reconstructed his draft, with 
a view to obviate the objections raised against it in its first form ; 
and the Council of this Institution had, in response to his appeal, 
petitioned Parliament in its favour, subject to the reservation that 
there was room for still further amendment ; which act would be 
taken to mean little more than an approval of its preamble. 
The Chairman next stated that the Institution had been 
invited to assist in promoting the success of the Meeting of the 
Royal Archeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 
appointed to be held at Exeter from July 29th to August 5th 
inclusive ; and their President had been selected to preside in the 
History Section. Moreover, they had been asked by the Exeter 
Committee to allow certain valuable rarities—among them the 
Gold Torque—to be removed from their Museum, to form part of - 
a temporary museum forming at Exeter for inspection by the 
Archxologists; and the Council had consented, upon proper 
provision being made for the safe transport and custody of the 
articles lent. In connection with the Exeter Meeting there would 
be Excursions over Dartmoor, and shorter ones elsewhere; and, 
as many of the members of the Institution would wish to avail 
themselves of them, it had been determined by the Council to 
have no Excursion of their own this summer. Moreover, Corn- 
wall would be visited this summer by the Institution of Mechanical 
Engineers, primarily under the auspices of the Polytechnic Society 
at Falmouth ; but this Institution would of course be anxious to 
render any assistance in its power, though it was unfortunate that 
this visit of the Engineers would be taking place, for the most 
part, whilst the Archzologists were at Exeter. 
Dr. Jago, in passing on to the chief purpose of the meeting, 
the reading of the Papers that had been entrusted to them, re- 
marked that, although in such a Society as theirs it must usually 
happen that such papers must primarily deal with local phenomena, 
it by no means followed that these might not become a source of a 
wide reputation for those authors who bestowed due pains in ex- 
ploring them. Of this fact there was ample evidence immediately 
before him. On the table was a valuable gift of shells &c. from Mr. 
W. P. Cocks, as a reminder of the many papers that had in former 
years been contributed to their Journal by this veteran naturalist, 
whose indefatigable researches, over a period of 30 years, in the 
neighbourhood of Falmouth, had caused his name to be indelibly 
written in the annals of marine fauna. The like, as the publica- 
