86 THE ANNUAL EXCUBSION. 



Ragget, E. Gr. Bennett, Major Parkyn, Hamilton James 

 (Truro), E. Stribley, J. Penson, 0. Eadford, W. Square, Dr. 

 Neild, Lewis, Taylor, Phillips, F. J. Webb, J. Hine, W. N. 

 Carne (Falmouth), Colville Smith (Truro), W. Adams, E. H. 

 Dawe, Balkwill, Bazley, J. C. Inglis, Harper, G. Jago, 

 Brugmann, C. Jago, Walkem, A. J. Bond, A. Pyder, F. 

 Lemann, and a large number of ladies. Aiter coffee had been 

 served to the company. 



The Rev. Professor Chapman remarked that it fell to his lot 

 as president of the Plymouth Institution to express the great 

 pleasure it afforded them to be honoured with the presence that 

 evening of the members of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 

 and to assure them of the interest which they felt in that society. 

 For reasons obvious to dwellers on both sides of the Tamar, the 

 people of Plymouth were wont to think that what concerned the 

 county of Cornwall also concerned them, more, perhaps, than 

 any other part of England. This interest, arising out of geo- 

 graphical and commercial relations was, in their case, 

 strengthened by the fact that the objects contemplated by the 

 two Institutions were in many respects identical. Both sought 

 by means of lectures, discussions, encouragement of private re- 

 search, and the establishment of libraries and museums to 

 extend and improve historical and scientific knowledge and to 

 foster the cultivation of literature and art. (Hear, hear). 

 Moreover, the society which found its home in that building 

 rejoiced in having incorporated in its very constitution a dis- 

 tinctly Cornish element, for its full and proper designation was the 

 Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History 

 Society. (Applause.) Not only were they thus constitutionally 

 connected with Cornwall, but when he looked around the room 

 and saw the portrait of that distinguished man, Dr. Tregelles, 

 he was reminded that the Institution in the past, and also at the 

 present, had been very greatly indebted to the neighbouring 

 county for some of its most active and distinguished members, 

 whose names were famous in the scientific world, and who by 

 their researches in the various departments of literature and 

 science had contributed very much to the advancement of its 

 highest interests. (Applause). He trusted they would excuse 

 these references. He made them in order to set forth what 

 special reasons they had for gratification in having an oppor- 



