Spring; lEeeting, 1555. 



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THE PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



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When last I had the pleasure of addressing you from this 

 chair, I hoped that, before we met again at our Annual Spring 

 Meeting, I might have had an opportunity of turning my 

 attention to one of the many subjects of which your Society 

 takes cognizance sufficiently to enable me, following the example 

 of my predecessors however far behind, to prepare something 

 like an address, which, with the assurance of a friendly and 

 indulgent audience, I might venture to lay before you. I am 

 sorry to say the every day engagements of my life have pre- 

 vented my attempting anything of the kind. No special subject 

 of an appropriate character has come under my notice in the 

 ordinary course of events, and it has been impossible for me to 

 devote sufficient time to any new subject of thougnt to enable 

 me to prepare an essay or address which would have been 

 either a source of credit to myself, of advantage to the 

 Institution, or even of amusement to my hearers. I must 

 therefore content myself with jotting down a few of those incidents 

 of local interest that have occurred during the past year, which 

 it may be desirable to place on record in your journals, and I 

 must accept the fact that, if my presidency is kindly remembered 

 by any of those with whom it has brought me into friendly con- 

 tact, it will not be through any addition which it has been in 

 my power to make to the literary or scientific possessions of the 

 Institution. 



The pens of readier writers have however not been idle 

 during the past year. Mr. Frederick W. P. Jago has lately 

 published a new Cornish Glossary, and Colonel Vivian has 

 almost completed his " Herald's Visitation of Cornwall." A 

 history of the ancient town of Launceston, or Dunheved, by Mr. 

 0. B. Peter, is in course of preparation. A work called 

 *' Collectanea Cornubiensia," by Mr. G. C. Boase and Mr. W. P. 

 Courtney, which is partly issued, is sure to meet with a hearty 

 welcome, from all who know and appreciate the successful and 



