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65TII ANNUAL GENBEAL MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall 

 was held on November 26th, 1883, at the Ilooms of the 

 Institution, Truro. Dr. Jago, F.R.S., vice-president, occupied 

 the chair, and amongst those present were — Mr. A. Poudarves 

 Vivian, M.P., the Eevs. Chancellor AVhitaker, W. Eogers, 

 James H. Moore, G. Napier, G. L. Church, A. E. Tomlinson, 

 and W. lago ; General Pearse, E.A., Major Parkyn {Sec), and 

 Messrs. H. S. Leverton, E. G. Spry, E. Symons, E. H. Carter, 

 E. Tweedy, H. M. Jeffery, F.E.S., E. Sharp, J. H. Bawden, W. 

 M. Grylls, T. Hawken, J. Bryant, and T. Cragoe. 



Major Parkyn read the Eeport of the Council, as follows: — 

 The presidency of this Institution is, as the members are 

 aware, a biennial office ; that of the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe 

 will terminate to-day ; and it is very gratifjdng to the council to 

 be able to report that they perceive many substautial signs of 

 the increase of usefulness and general attractions of the society 

 during his term, and that his second year of office has been even 

 more prosperous than the first. But before further mention 

 is made of such matters the council will, for a while, speak of 

 the losses that the Society and county have suffered in the 

 ordinary course of human events. The untimely decease of Dr*. 

 Hudson, E.ll.C.S.I., of Eedruth, in the midst of a professional 

 success which he had richly merited, has deprived us of a much 

 valued contributor to our journal, and us and the county 

 generally of one of the most ardent and able promoters of 

 scientific education that the neighbourhood could be proud of, 

 and he had made himself so entirely one of us that few ever 

 thought that he was not born in Cornwall. Whilst speaking of 

 such losses, perhaps the Council may be forgiven for going 

 outside of our own society to record the death, on July lOtli last, 



