312 CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 
October 15. Cornish Telegraph contains the following: AnctmnT Stone. 
—Considerable attention is being drawn to an ancient stone in the plantation 
near Carnsew, Hayle. A gentleman of high standing as an antiquary has 
lately examined, and taken a photograph of it, and hopes, by careful research, 
to be able to give a reliable opinion as to its date and original purpose. The 
opinion has been expressed that it marked the grave of one of the earliest 
Christians. 3 
October 17. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 60th Annual Meeting, 
at Penzance; Mr. Warington Smyth, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
Among Papers read were the following: Describing Sections of Pits sunk in 
the Western Green, near Newlyn; Mr. T. Cornish. Glacial Action in North 
eren Mr. Whitley. Notes on some Specimens of Minerals; Dr. Le Neve 
oster. 
November 1. Cornwall Gazette records a recent commemoration, at 
Mylor Church, of ‘‘ the 1462nd Anniversary of the origin and dedication of 
Mylor Church and parish, in the martyrdom of the British saint, Meilyr (or 
Melorus), son of Melianus, Duke of Cornwall, by his Pagan brother-in-law, 
Rinaldus, A.D. 411. 
November 7. Western Morning News contains a report of a Paper read 
the previous evening at the Plymouth Institution, by Mr. C. Spence Bate, 
F.R.S., on ‘‘ Grimspound and its associated relics.” 
November 13. Oxford Local Examinations. Presentation of Prizes 
and Certificates at Truro, by the High Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonel Grylls. 
November 18. Royal Institution of Cornwall, 55th Annual General . 
Meeting; Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., M.P., President, in the Chair. Dr. 
Jago, F'.R.S., elected President for the ensuing year. In the evening, a 
Conversazione, in the Institution Lecture Room. (See Journal of the Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, No. XV., and 56th Annual Report). 
November 22. Cornwall Gazette publishes, from Notes and Queries, & 
communication by Mr. Thomas Kerslake of Bristol, concerning ‘‘ The Trefiry 
Family,” and ‘‘ Treveris’—the printer of the Grete Herboll, 1516.” 
December 1. At a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, a Paper was read 
by Samuel Ferguson, Hsq., LL.D., ‘‘On the Completion of. the Biliteral Key 
to the Values of the Letters in the South British Ogham Alphabet.”* Mr. 
Ferguson, premising that the Ogham Inscriptions of South Britain are dis- 
tinguished from +hose of Scotland and Ireland by being almost always 
accompanied by corresponding legends in the Roman character, stated that 
prior to 1870 the values of almost all the letters of the South British Ogham 
alphabet had by this means been ascertained ; there remaining to be identified, - 
only P F L D, which were problematical, and B, which had not been found 
at all. In December 1870, it was pointed out to the Academy that the 
equivalent of P was found in a combination of Ogham digits on the monu- 
ment to Turpill at Crickhowel. F and L might be inferred from fiil; and F 
and D from their use in.the name Doft(a)ceos on the Tycoed monument. 
And in August 1873, the identification of the Ogham equivalent of B was 
* An illustrated Paper concerning an Ogham Stone (now in the British Museum) found 
at Fardel, near Ivy Bridge, Devon, was read at a Meeting of this Institution, by Sir Edward 
Smirke, in 1861. See 48rd Annual Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1861. 
