230 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



to its success furnished from these parts. The local committee 

 of promoters have deemed this Institution the most fitting body 

 to have charge of it. It was in your rooms their conferences 

 took place, and in them the exhibits from the Cornish fisheries 

 were focused. 



You have again to thank Mr. H. Michell Whitley for saving 

 you the cost of a salaried editor of your Journal by voluntarily 

 taking upon himself a task, that well performed as it is by him, 

 must consume much time which, other ways employed, might be of 

 personal advantage in his pursuits or literary researches. You 

 wiU be glad, as he will be, to hear that much good material for 

 the next part of the Journal will be at the services of the 

 Council you will this day elect. It is not customary for the 

 Council to single out any one for special mention from the many 

 donors that confer favours on the Society by presents to the 

 Museum or otherwise to the Institution; but Mr. Eichard Pearce, 

 of Colorado, to whom you owe incessant obligations, has com- 

 pelled them to call to your notice a very graceful act of his, in 

 transmitting to you, carriage paid, sixty-four beautifiil photo- 

 graphs of striking landscapes in the western portions of the 

 United States of America, with instructions to get them framed 

 and glazed at his charge, if you deem them worthy to be hung 

 on your walls, and you will observe that nearly 50 of them are 

 already there. 



Your Council propose, independently of the continued presi- 

 dency of Mr. A. P. Vivian, for the acceptance of this Annual 

 Meeting, that the vacancies in the oJ0S.ce of vice-presidents — by 

 the retirement of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. Whitley, 

 and that caused by the death of Dr. Barham — be filled by the 

 Lord Bishop of Truro, Mr. H. Martyn Jeffery, F.E.S., and 

 Mr. Warington Smyth, P.E.S. ; that Mr. Arthur WiUyams, be 

 the treasurer ; Mr. H. Michell Whitley and Major Parkyn, 

 secretaries; and the Eevs. Canon Cornish, M.A., W. lago, B.A., 

 A. H. Malan, M.A., and Messrs. Howard Fox, Hamilton James, 

 H. S. Leverton, M.E.C.S., E. M. Paul, E. G. Spry, B.A., 

 E. Tweedy, and N. Whitley be the other Members of the 

 Council for the ensuiug year. 



