66 ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Eev. D. Gath Whitley, Baldhu, dealt with the Harlyn 

 Burials in the light of recent archeeological discoveries in Europe, 

 in a paper printed in this number of the journal. 



Mr. S. Trevail said he would be inclined to take coins and 

 other marks of a particular period as evidences of the date of 

 burial. He asked the President whether within his knowledge 

 the Indians of Chili and Peru did not bury their dead in the 

 same contracted form as had been observed at Harlyn. There 

 was no evidence to show that they did not at a particular date 

 bury in exactly the same mode as they did 1,000 years previously. 

 He could not help thinking that the evidence found in the Harlyn 

 graves of a later period was the superior evidence, and very 

 likely the dead were buried in that contracted form hundreds 

 of years after the Neolithic Age. 



Sir Pobert Harvey said that in constructing railways and 

 making cuttings in Chili and Peru, he had come across several 

 Indian burying grounds, and observed a large number of bodies 

 which were interred in the " knee and nose " fashion, 



Mr. F. H. Davey, Ponsanooth, who, with the assistance of a 

 large body of botanists in all parts of the county, is engaged in a 

 scientific investigation of the flora of the county, read a paper 

 entitled " Contributions to a Cornish Flora." 



Mr. Trevail said he thought some expression ought to go 

 out from this Institution to try to prevent the calamity of the 

 county being denuded of its rare and beautiful plants. He knew 

 several valleys that were quite denuded of rare specimens by the 

 ruthless stealing which was carried on by people from a distance. 



Papers were also read by (or for) Professor Clark on " The 

 Birds of Cornwall;" Mr. Eupert Vallentin on "The Plankton of 

 the Looe Pool;" Mr. Otho B. Peter on "The Ancient Earth- 

 fenced town and village sites in Cornwall;" and by Mr. H. M. 

 Whitley and his co-workers on "Mural Paintings in Cornish 

 Churches." These papers are all priiited in this journal, except 

 Mr. Vallentin' s, which is reserved for a future issue. 



On the proposition of Canon Donaldson and the Eev. E. E. 

 S. Buck, a vote of thanks was accorded those who had contributed 

 papers and the donors of gifts to the Museum and Library. 



