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their adequate maintenance. However, for the past year no 

 heavy charges in either have had to be provided for. In the 

 previous year, notwithstanding some thorough repairs to the 

 main building, your balance with the Treasurer was £36, and 

 you may to-day be congratulated on finding that balance in- 

 creased to £63. Thus you might be tempted to imagine that 

 you are emerging from the inconveniences of a narrow income 

 into the freedom of an ample one : and this aside, from the 

 fact that before the end of April next, you will be able to claim, 

 and doubtless will receive, a legacy of £100 with compound 

 interest accumulating since the year 1875 (a sum that will then 

 amount to £182) which the will of your former president, W. 

 J. Henwood, F.E..S.', instructed his executors to pay by that 

 time to your Treasurer for the ordinary purposes of this 

 Institution. 



It may be appended that there will be payable in tnist at 

 the same time and from the same source the sum of £200, and 

 like accumulations, which by that time will have augmented it 

 to £265. The destination of this sum is to purchase Dies for a gold 

 medal, with specified characteristics that will limit the option of 

 your current Councils, and of not less intrinsic value than ten 

 guineas, to be awarded by your officers triennially to the person, 

 " who shall have contributed the best treatise or paj)er on the 

 geology, mineralogy, mining operations, botany, ornithology, 

 ichthyology, conchology, or antiquities of Cornwall (but on no 

 other subjects whatsoever) published in any Journal, Proceed- 

 ings, or Transactions of the said Institution during the three years 

 next preceding the date of such award." The first award is to be 

 made three years after the date of the purchase of the dies. If 

 the sum that remains in trust after such purchase (which sum 

 is to be invested in some British government security) shall yield 

 more interest triennially than shall suffice for the cost of the 

 medal, the surplus is to be applied to the ordinary purposes of 

 the Institution, — and it may be taken for granted that there will 

 be some surplus. 



The International Fisheries Exhibition, held in London, 

 during 1883, more than realized the anticipations of its pro- 

 moters, both as to its general attractions and special value to 

 English fishermen ; and a memorial gold medal has been pre- 

 sented to Cornwall in recognition of the prominent contributions 



