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CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
1873. 
January 1. The Archeologia Cambrensis contains a Paper by E. H. 
W. Dunkin, Blackheath, on ‘‘ The Megalithic Circle at Duloe, Cornwall.” 
January 1. Western Morning News publishes an article: « Highteen _ 
Hundred and Seventy-two in the West of England,” including a Meteorolo- 
gical Review compiled from a Register kept at Plymouth, by Dr. Merrifield. 
January 8. The Cornish Telegraph publishes an ‘Abstract of the 
Weather at Penzance and neighbourhood for the year 1872”; by W. Hosken 
Richards. 
January 9. Conversazione of the Plymouth Institution, at the Ply- 
mouth Atheneum. 
January 9. West Briton publishes articles entitled: ‘‘ Cornish Mining 
in 1872,” and ‘‘ Cornwall in 1872.” 
January 15. Annual Meeting of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society ; 
the President, Mr. Charles Fox, presiding. Mr. Arthur Pendarves Vivian, 
M.P., was elected President for the ensuing year; and Colonel Tremayne, 
Mr. Jonathan Rashleigh, Mr. Richard Taylor, and Mr. Charles Fox, were 
elected Vice-Presidents. 
January 17. Western Morning News publishes ‘‘ The Life and Times of 
Dr. Borlase,” from a Lecture delivered at the Penzance Institute by Mr. W. 
Copeland Borlase, B.A., F.S.A., Castle Horneck. 
January 22. Cornish Telegraph publishes a notice of ‘‘Dr. Borlase, 
the Cornish Antiquarian,” from a Lecture given at the Penzance Institute, 
by Mr. W. Copeland Borlase, of Castle Horneck. 
January 23. West Briton publishes an article on ‘ The Mayoralty of 
Truro,” with a list of the gentlemen who have filled the office of chief 
magistrate in Truro in the present century. 
January 29. Western Morning News publishes a note of inquiry, from 
‘Thomas Q. Couch,” on a moot point in Natural History ; whether the adder, 
in time of alarm or danger, open her mouth and swallow her young for safety. 
February 7. Western Morning News publishes a notice of a lecture 
delivered by Mr. T. R. A. Briggs, F.L.S., on ‘‘The Botany of Plymouth, in 
connection with its physical features and climate.” 
February 10. Western Morning News publishes an article entitled 
‘‘ Devonshire in 1871.” 
February 12. Western Morning News publishes ‘‘ The Census of Corn- 
wall” in 1871. 
