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FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, 
Held on. Tuesday, November 18th, 1873. 
This Meeting was held in the Institution Lecture-Room, and 
there were present :—Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., M.P., President ; 
Dr. Barham, Dr. Jago, F.R.S., Rev. C. M. Edward Collins, Rev. 
J. R. Cornish, Rev. H. 8. Slight, Rev. J. J. Wilkinson, Com- 
mander Liddell, R.N., Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, Mr. Whitley, Mr. 
F. V. Budge, Mr. Tweedy, Mr. J. H. Collins, F.G.S., Major 
Parkyn, Mr. H. Spry Leverton, Mr. Reginald Rogers, Mr. Alex- 
ander Paull, Mr. R. H. Carter, Mr. R. N. Worth, Mr. B. Kitto. 
THE COUNCIL'S REPORT. — 
Although the history of this Institution during the past year 
presents few events of novel or remarkable interest, the retrospect 
may on the whole be considered satisfactory, as it has fully main- 
tained its activity and usefulness, and has gained a slight accession 
to the number of its Members. 
Our Society has lost only two of its Members by death during 
the past year. Of these, Mr. John Waters had but lately joined 
us. The loss of the- Rev. John Bannister, LL.D. of Trinity 
College, Dublin, calls for more extended notice. He was taken 
from us unexpectedly in his 58th year, was a Yorkshireman by 
birth, and did not come into this County till 1857, when he was 
appointed to the then Perpetual Curacy of Saint Day. He had 
not long pursued his clerical duties in that neighbourhood before 
he became impressed with the idea that much of the long-ago 
unspoken “Celtic vernacular of Cornwall,” which would otherwise 
be lost to linguistic science, might be rescued from oblivion by a 
more exhaustive analysis than previous Antiquaries had attempted, 
of the names of places and persons that have prevailed in the 
County. All imaginable sources, whether oral, manuscript, or 
printed, were resorted to by him in quest of such names, through 
