ANNUAL GENEBAL MEETING. 



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Proceedings of the Society of Antiqiiaries, London ... The Society. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London Ditto. 



Report of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society... Ditto. 



Proceedings of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historical 



Society ... ... .. ... ... Ditto. 



Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society ... Ditto. 



Collections of the Montgomeryshire Historical and 



Ai'chjBologicul Society ... ... Ditto. 



Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining 



Engineers The In.stitvitc. 



Annual Report and Transactions of the Plymouth Insti- 

 tution The Institution. 



Report and Transactions of the Penzance Natural History 



Society The Society. 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution ... .. The Institution. 



Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers ... The Institute. 



Collections from the Archa;ological Society, Surrey ... The Society. 



Monthly Weather Review The American Gov. 



Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 



Society The Society. 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Ancient Candlestick for holding Rushlights, in use in North Wales. Presented 

 by Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, H.M.I, of Mines. 



Specimens of Rocks illustrative of the Geology of Central and West Cornwall. 

 Presented by Mr. J. H. Collins. 



Stones anciently used for Grinding, discovered by Mr. Thos. Phillips, on 

 Bosvathick, Constantino, and presented by the Rev. W. Rogers, Mawuau. 



Mr. A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P., on taking the cliair, 

 thanked the members very much for electing him president of such 

 an important and valuable Institution. He greatly valued the 

 honour, and he at the same time felt the resj)onsibility he took 

 upon himself, more esp^^cially coming, as he did, after two such 

 remarkable presidents as the present Archbishop of Canterbury 

 and the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe. Of course, if it were not 

 that that Institution embraced so many departments besides 

 archeeology, did he not see before him specimens of mineralogy, 

 geology, and natural history, and did he not know how much 

 time and industry had been given by the Institution to those 

 particular sciences, he should feel still more how little able he was 

 to fill the position of president. He assured them that ho would 



