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July (and October). The Reliquary, Quarterly Archeological Journal, 
contains the commencement of a series of papers on the ‘‘Church Bells of 
‘Cornwall, their Archeology and present condition”; by EH. H. W. Dunkin, 
Blackheath. When completed, these papers will give full information as to 
the inscriptions and size of all the bells in the mother church of every 
parish in the county; chiefly from personal visitation. 
August 5. Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon. Annual Ex- 
cursion. From Redruth to the Perran Iron Mines, on invitation from Mr. 
W. R. Roebuck. 
August 6.—Western Morning News records the capture, off Mevagissey, 
of a Thrasher, or Fox Shark, Carcharias Vulpes, Cuv. It was six feet in 
length, and was caught on a hand line. 
August 26.—Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 41st Annual Meeting; 
Mr. Arthur Pendarves Vivian, M.P., President. 
August 27.—Cornish Telegraph records the blooming of an American 
Aloe (Agave Amaryllidacee), in the garden of Mrs. Pidwell, at Treveor 
Cottage, Alverton, Penzance. The plant, probably about 25 years old, in 
very healthy condition, and displaying a candelabra-like column nearly 
25 feet high, with 35 floral blossoms. : 
August 28. Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devonshire. Annual 
Meeting at Falmouth; Mr. Basset, of Tehidy, presiding. The following 
Papers were read :—On recent improvements in the construction and setting 
of Jordan’s Patent Combination Boiler; T. B. Jordan. Note on the Great 
Perran Iron Lode; J. H. Collins, F.G.S. On the Duty of Cornish Engines ; 
J. Hocking, C.E. On the use of Concrete for making Leats or Water- 
courses; Dr. Le Neve Foster. Further Notices of Rock-drilling Machinery ; 
T, B. Jordan. Description of a Condensing Apparatus for condensing 
poisonous gases and the fumes of sulphur and arsenic; 8. T. Rowe, Redruth. 
September 7. Death, at Penzance, of Miss Elizabeth Catherine Thomas 
Carne, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Carne, and herself possessed 
of very considerable literary and scientific attainments. A memoir of the 
deceased lady was published in the Cornish Telegraph of September 10. 
September 17, and following days. 43rd Annual Meeting of the British 
Association, at Bradford; President, Professor Williamson. Among the 
Papers read were the following: Ninth Report of the Committee for the 
Exploration of Kent’s Cavern; My. W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. On the 
Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent’s Cavern, Torquay; by Mr. W. 
Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. On the Discovery of a Species of Starfish in the 
Devonian Rocks of South Devon; by Mr. A. Champernowne. 
September 27. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from Mr. Christopher 
Cooke, London, on * The Cornish Language and its relation to Latin.” 
October 1,15, 22,29. Cornish Telegraph publishes communications from 
ow. B.”, “W. N.”, ‘C.”, and ‘*R. Pentreath”, concerning the derivation 
of the word ‘ kiggal,” as equivalent, in West Cornwall, to spindle. 
October 4. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from Mr. Christopher 
Cooke, London, on “‘ The Cornish Language and its relation to Greek.” 
October 9. West Briton publishes, from the Freemason, a Memoir of 
the masonic career of the late Rev. Dr. Bannister, of St. Day. 
