iWNUAL GENERAIi MEETING. 109 



natural history, natural pliilosopliy, and antiquities, the subjects 

 whose cultivation has been specially aimed at from the first 

 foundation of this Society. 



It is satisfactory to our Council that more than usual 

 attention has been given to the completing and binding the 

 successive volumes of transactions and serials, which had been a 

 good deal interfered with. "We are pai'ticularly indebted to our 

 secretary, Major Parkyn, for the careful supervision of these 

 matters. It is, however, certain that the provision for science 

 and art teaching for the artizau and middle classes, through the 

 length and breadth of the land, will be regarded by every 

 government as indispensably necessary for the success of the 

 productive interests of the community, and if such teaching is 

 hereafter to be carried on in connection with this Museum, 

 additional space and accommodation must be provided. The 

 suggestion of possible extension by the purchase of the freehold 

 between these premises and Pydar-street, was broached in the 

 last report, and seemed to be favourably received ; and the 

 Council would now propose that the usual preliminary steps be 

 at once taken to ascertain the cost of the required extension, and 

 the willingness of our members and the public to contribute 

 towards the sum necessai'y for carrying out the undertaking. 



The admissions to the Museum during the year wore as 

 foUows : — Admitted free, 2,401 ; by ticket, 98 ; by payment, 6d., 

 488 ; total, 2,987. 



On the 13th and 14th of September the Annual Excursion 

 was held, under most favourable aiispices. Those who joined 

 the first day were exceptionally few, whereas the party on the 

 second day was unusually numerous. This resulted from the 

 selection of routes. One was a locality well known to our 

 members from a previous visit ; the other was new and 

 specially attractive. On the first day the expedition was 

 materially advanced by Mr. W. Polkinghorne, Mayor of 

 Liskeard, and on the second day by the Lord-Lieutenant, our 

 president, both of whom were extremely kind, hospitable, and 

 helpful. On the morning of the 1 3th the excursionists assembled 

 at Liskeard, and, in the course of the day, visited St. Cleer, 

 the Cheesewring, Kilmar, the Phoenix Mines, and other 

 interesting objects in that neighbourhood. In the evening of 



