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between £60 and £70. Compared with the years immediately 

 preceding the last one, the income more than maintains its 

 buoyancy as it shews a stead}^, and, let lis hope, a permanent 

 increase, leaving each succeeding year a more favourable credit 

 balance. As just stated, the income for the current year has 

 amounted to £^22 19s. 5d., whilst the expenditure has been 

 £186 15s. 3d., thus leaving a credit balance of £36 4s. 2d. in 

 our banker's hands. This we feel to be eminently satisfactory, 

 shewing not only an increase for the present year, but indicating 

 an increasing credit balance. The sum realised from the sale of 

 the journal is beyond the average. Looking at the whole year 

 the journal has maintained the credit of the Society, but 

 considerations of economy led the editor to reduce the size 

 of the part most recently issued. An amjjle supply of suitable 

 material may hereafter be calculated on, not only in the way of 

 original papers, but especially in documentary articles contri- 

 buted by friends engaged in researches amongst ancient records 

 — articles less suited to books prepared for the general public, 

 but most appropriate to the transactions of learned bodies, by 

 whom indeed they can alone be preserved. As instances of 

 such sources of future matter for the journal may be mentioned 

 the works now in preparation by one of our members, Mr. W. 

 H. Tregellas, on the "Worthies of Cornwall," and of Mr. E.W. H. 

 Dunkin, on the " Ancient AVills of Cornwall." The dissemination 

 of the journal is of the highest importance to the well-being of 

 our Society, its advent being looked forward to with increasing 

 interest each succeeding year. It is gratifying to know that it 

 is to be found on the shelves of most of the learned Societies of 

 Europe and America. The Society feels itself much indebted to 

 their editor, Mr H. Michell Whitley, for the successful efforts 

 made by him to maintain its high reputation. In addition to 

 the ordinary issue of the journal an extra pamphlet will be 

 given to the members, which the Council thought might be 

 conveniently kept apart — the summary of the meteorological 

 observations made and recorded at the Museum. This is now on 

 the table in a complete form as regards our own registers. Dr. 

 Barham, in whose hands this work was placed, has desired us to 

 express at the same time his satisfaction that the duty of the 

 Institution in regard to the results of the long and assiduous 

 labour of observers here, of Mr. Newcombe especially, has been 



