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existence, dying within a short period from his election, Dr. 

 Barham was promoted to his chair in 1859 : and quickly there- 

 upon, the biennial system of the presidency being made one of 

 your laws, he resigned it to his successor in 1861. It should be 

 added that from that time, though ceasing to hold a permanent 

 office, he was ever a member of the Council ; and was vice- 

 president at the date of his death, which happened on Oct. 20th, 

 in his 81st year. 



Thus forty seven years of this long life were devoted to your 

 service. It may be truly said not only with indefatigable zeal 

 that neither his successful pursuit of his duties as a physician, 

 nor the cares of the many influential positions in this city apart 

 from his profession he occupied could impair, but zeal, be it 

 remembered, tempered with discretion, and armed with and 

 controlled by extensive literary and scientific acquirements. 



At the beginning of this period of nearly half a century, 

 each Annual Report of your Society might commonly have been 

 printed on a single leaf of your present Journal ; whilst it 

 struggled under a mortgage debt on its building of £1,300, and 

 these reception rooms, however modest their pretensions, in 

 which you are now assembled, were rented by the Cornwall 

 Library. But he lived to see the library elsewhere accommo- 

 dated in a public structure that will ever be associated with his 

 name, and' these rooms revert to your purposes, and to see the entire 

 extinction of the debt^ whilst the Museum has been added to in 

 many of its departments, and the size and cost of your Journal 

 have, as you are aware, so increased that it has become a con- 

 siderable publication, issued twice a year, for which often 

 appropriate engravings are prepared. 



In your Journal or other printed proceedings his name may 

 be met with as the author of remarks on a great variety of topics ; 

 though to speak more particularly, he seems to have taken great 

 pleasure in antiquarian researches and to have been unwearied 

 in clim'atological studies, which, you will be happy to hear, have 

 culminated in the completion, only last year, of a little work on 

 which his heart was set, that you will regard as a legacy from 

 his labours, and which in the words of its title-page, furnishes 

 the "Eesults of the Meteorological Observations made at the 

 Eoyal Institution of Cornwall in the years 1840 to 1881 



