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always has the interests of the institution at heart ; our Society 

 has contributed i 500 towards the purchase, Mr. Enys making 

 himself responsible for the remainder of the cost w^iich is much 

 more considerable. It is hoped that some others will share with 

 him the cost of his act of unselfishness. 



The treasured portraits in oil belonging- to the Institution 

 having been found to be in need of attention Mr. W. A. Rollason, 

 the head master of the Art depai-tment of the Centi-al Technical 

 Schools for Cornwall, has been entrusted with the work of clean- 

 ing and restoring them. Great caution is being exercised in the 

 treatment of the pictures so that not the slightest injury shall be 

 done to them, as original works of art. One of the paintings is 

 the work of the famous Sir Godfrey Kneller. On one occasion 

 it is said to has-e been sold by its possessor for several hundred 

 pounds ; and eventually it was purchased for this institution 

 through the liberality of the President, Sir Robert Harvey, who 

 is likewise defraying the cost of the necessary rejDaration now 

 being bestowed upon it. 



Three years having elapsed since the bestowal of the Hen- 

 wood triennial gold medal, the Council (having been duly 

 convened for the purpose) met to make another award. They 

 have adjudged the medal to the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, M.A., 

 a former president, for his comprehensive literary contribution to 

 our Journal in which he has treated of the Ancient Cornish 

 Ecclesiastical Dedications. His work is of very great interest, 

 and no one is better qualified for dealing with so intricate a 

 subject. 



The Council at the same time desire to express their high 

 appreciation of the services which Mr. F. Hamilton Davey, as a 

 contributor to the Jounial, has rendered with respect to the 

 botany of Cornwall. They are glad to find that he is about to 

 issue a volume as the result of his study and investigations in 

 that important and very interesting branch of science. 



The special committee consisting of Messrs. J. D. Enys, 

 Thurstan C. Peter and H. Michell Whitley, which did such good 

 work in connection with the list of mural paintings in Cornish 

 churches, has been re-elected for the purpose of preparing a list 

 of ancient painted and stained glass found in Cornwall. 



