THE ANNUAL EXCURSION. 



The folloiuin^ account is taken chiefly J rem the " IVE'U'ERM AIORNINO NElV^i, 

 the proceedings being reported oh September l^th and J$th. 



The annual excursion of the members of the Eoyal Institution 

 of Cornwall took place on the 13th and 14th September, 

 and the weather being fine and the company large, a 

 pleasant and agreeable holiday was spent. The excur- 

 sionists, according to their programme, met at Liskeard 

 Station on the arrival of the uj) train sliortly after nine 

 o'clock in the morning, and Mere conducted by the Mayor, Mr, 

 W. Polkinghorne, to his residence, where he entertained them 

 at breakfast and exhibited the municipal regalia. The party 

 then drove to St. Cleer, where the Church and Well were the 

 prominent objects of interest. Having visited the Longstone, 

 the Inscribed Monument at Eedgate and the Hurlers, the 

 Cheesewring was reached. The party subsequently proceeded 

 to Kilmar, and afterwards lunched at the Phoenix Mines ; full 

 justice having been done to this particular feature of the pro- 

 gramme, the Mayor of Liskeard gave an interesting explan- 

 ation of the workings of the mines. At live o'clock the party 

 returned to Liskeard Station and came on to Plymouth by the 

 mail train. In the evening they were the guests of the Ply- 

 mouth Institution at the Athenaeum, where a large company of 

 ladies and gentlemen assembled shortly after eight o'clock. The 

 company included the Earl cf Mount Edgcumbe, president of the 

 Royal Institution of Cornwall ; the Eev. Professor Chapman, 

 president of the Plymouth Institution ; the Rev. J. E. Risk, the 

 Rev. W. lago (Bodmin), the Rev. W. Sharman, Admiral 

 Beechey, Dr. Jago (Truro), Messrs. W. Derry, R. G. Edmonds, 

 Dr. Merrifield, W. J. Square, AV. Polkinghorne (Mayor of Lis- 

 keard) , C. Spence Bate, I. Latimer, R. N. Worth, S. Cater, Dr. 

 Oxland, Caj)tain Polkinghorne (St. Blazey), Dr. A. Poarse, 

 Keen, S. Picken, Dr. Aldi'idge (Plymouth), H. Luscombe, 



