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February 13. West Briton publishes a notice of a Lecture by Mr. T. 
Cornish, President of the Penzance Institute, on ‘‘ Ferguson on Rude Stone 
- Monuments, as applied to West Cornwall.” 
March 3. Western Morning News records the recent capture of an 
Octopus by Mr. Matthias Dunn, Mevagissey, and that it would be placed in 
the Brighton Aquarium, where a specimen previously furnished by Mr. Dunn, 
had been devoured by @ Dog-fish. 
April 1. Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Deyon. General Meeting 
at Redruth; Rev. Saltren Rogers, a V.P., in the chair, in the absence of the 
_ President, Mr. G. L. Basset. Mr, Benedict Kitto appointed Lecturer, in 
place of Mr. J. H. Collins, resigned, but appointed an Honorary Secretary. 
The Lecturer reported that in the Session which would close in May, about 
30 young men had been under instruction at St. Agnes, Breage, Pool, Cam- 
borne, Redruth, Helston, St. Day, St. Just, Pendeen, Hayle, and St. Austell. 
April 11. An Octopus, or Devil-fish, captured in Falmouth Harbour, 
by Mr. John Burton ; and was next day, sent to the Crystal Palace Aquarium. 
April 23. Cornish Telegraph publishes a brief notice of a Paper read at 
a recent meeting of the Philological Society, by Mr. H. Jenner, of the British 
Museum, ‘‘ On the Ancient Cornish Language.” 
May 3. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter, from Mr. Christopher Cooke, 
London, on ‘‘ Tin Mines” (in ancient Cornwall); with allusions to former 
discoveries of gold in Cornwall, and to the supposition that, before the arrival 
of the Romans, the ancient Britons understood the art of coining. 
June 14. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from Mr, Christopher 
Cooke, London, on the ‘“‘ Lemon Family,” (and Truro). 
June 19. Western Morning News records that during the work of 
restoration of Hayle Church, a remarkable staircase was found, which it is 
believed led to the rood-loft of a much older Church than the present. A 
curiously carved stone supposed to have belonged to an older building had 
also been discovered. 
July 14. Death of Mr. John Thomas Henry Peter, of Harlyn, in St. 
Merryn, and Chiverton, in Perranzabuloe. 
July 22. Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Literature, and Art. Twelfth Annual Meeting, at Sidmouth ; The Honourable 
Stephen Cave, M.P., President. The following Papers were read; Devon- 
shire Cavern Literature; W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. Sketch of B. R. 
Haydon; Rev. Treasurer Hawker. The Common Seals of Devon; R. N. 
Worth. Annelids versus Rain-drops, or Remarks on Mr, Hall’s Papers on 
Fossil Rain-drops; H. Parfitt. Meteorology of Sidmouth in 1872; J. Ingleby 
Mackenzie, M.B., ¥.M.S. The Rainfall on the St. Marychurch Road, Torquay, 
during the nine years ending December 1872; W. Pengelly, F.R. S., E.G.S. 
Rainfall in Devonshire in 1872 and in the seven years ending December 
1872; W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. On Devonshire Tokens, Part II; H. 8. 
Gill. On Devonshire Lanes; J. R. Chanter. Notice of Gold Coins found 
at Blackpool, Dartmouth, in. 1869; A. R. Hunt. The Toad-Stone; W. H. 
Gamlen. Notice of supposed Acoustic Jars found in the parish church of 
St. Andrew, Ashburton; J. D. Amery. On Domestic Servitude in Devon 
100 years ago; Rev. Treasurer Hawker. The Granite Boulder on the shore 
of Barnstaple Bay; W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. Local Vestiges of Sir 
