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Paints, Colours, and Varnishes. A.D. 1618—1866. ; 
Paper, Pasteboard, and Papier Maché. Partii. A.D. 1858—1866. 
Photography. Part ii. A.D. 1860—1866. 
Plating or Coating Metals with Metals. Partii. A.D. 1861—1866. 
Preparing and Cutting Cork; Bottling Liquids; Securing and Openin 
; Bottles, &c. A.D. 1777—1866. é 
Railways. A.D. 1803—1866. 
Raising, Lowering, and Weighing. A.D. 1617—1866. 
Sewing and Embroidering. A.D. 1755—1866. 
Skins, Hides, and Leather. A.D. 1627—1866. 
Steam Engine. Partii. Vol.i. A.D. 1860—1866. 
Ditto Part ii. Vol. ii. A.D. 1860—1866. 
Sugar. A.D. 1663—1866. 
Toys, Games and Exercises. A.D. 1672—1866. 
Ventilation. A.D. 1632—1866. 
Rey. C. M. E. CoLins, after speaking on the importance of 
forming, at this Institution, a Collection of Manuscripts connected 
with the published Histories of Cornwall, stated that, some two 
or three years since, he hoped he should be able to obtain the 
most valuable of these MSS.,—that of Hals, He had, however, 
been granted permission to show it at the Conversazione this 
evening ; and he urged that some effort should be made to secure 
it for this Institution. It was now the property of Mr. Stokes, 
of Bodmin, into whose possession it came from the late Mrs. 
Taunton, a daughter of Whitaker, the historian ;* and it was 
understood that Mr. Stokes had received liberal offers for it, and 
that Sir John Maclean and the Reverend Mr. Maskell had each 
offered as much as 100 guineas.—Mr. CoLLiIns went on to state 
that he had also with him a volume of Tonkin’s Manuscripts, 
which had been given to this Institution by the Reverend Mr. 
Pye, the Rector of Blisland, to whom they had been handed 
down. Sir John Maclean was at present using them; but they 
were the property of the Institution. Mr. CoLLINns added that 
he had himself found some MS. scraps by Tonkin, at Trewardale, 
including a copy of satirical verses on the then Sir John St. 
Aubyn.—The reverend gentleman next stated that, a few days 
previously, Mr. Polsue, of Bodmin, informed him that, not many 
* Davies Gilbert, in the Preface to his Parochial History, states that 
the Manuscript, after a long and mysterious disappearance, was recovered by 
Mr, Whitaker, from a bookseller at Exeter, who had retained the papers as 
a pledge for some debt; and that from Mr. Whitaker they came to his son- 
in-law, Richard Taunton, Esq., M.D.; mutilated, however, from want of 
care and attention on the part of the individual who had held them as a 
deposit. 
