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" classes and their teachers, by the Grants on the results of the 

 " instruction." 



But in order to carry out this very promising and desirable 

 object for the whole County as well as for the City of Truro, it 

 will be absolutely necessary to have considerable private help, 

 and the subscription list, which has already been to some extent 

 filled up, on the whole promises well. I think I need hardly 

 point out to such an audience as that I have the honour of 

 addressing, the immense benefit it is to students to have such 

 excellent collections so close at hand, as these of this Institution 

 would be, in the event of our hopes being fulfilled. On this point 

 I may be allowed, perhaps, to speak from my own personal 

 experience of the benefit the collection at the Mining Academ}^, 

 at Freiberg, is to the students, who come from all parts of the 

 world to take advantage of the facilities afforded them there. 

 I have therefore very great pleasure in endorsing this statement, 

 and commending the scheme to your very earnest attention. I 

 wish to add that the proposal if carried out would in no way 

 interfere with the working and individuality of those other 

 scientific, educational, and useful societies which I am proud to 

 say exist, and do such good work in this industrious county. 

 They are in themselves worthy of every possible encouragement, 

 bearing testimony as they do to great foresight on the part of 

 their pi'omoters, and reflecting credit on those who maintain and 

 carry them on. I feel naturally a peculiar interest in the 

 scheme now before us, from the fact that the site in question 

 is that of the old town residence of our family, where my 

 grandfather and father lived for many a long year. 



I understand that the chief addition to our Museum during 

 the past 3^ear is Mr. Laughrin's most excellent case of 

 " Crustaceans," which obtained such an honourable mention at 

 last year's International Fisheries' Exhibition. 



And now, as is customary, I must refer briefly to the losses 

 sustained by the Institution by the death of any of its members 

 during the year. I am thankful to say that I am told that only 

 one active member has been removed from us, but in him we 

 have sustained a very grievous loss indeed. I refer to 

 Dr. Hudson, of Eedruth. Although, I believe, not a native 

 of this county, yet during a lengthened residence in it he 



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