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ANNUAL MEETING, 1885. 



The Annual Meeting was held at the rooms of the 

 Institution, on November 26th. 



The chair, in the unavoidable absence of the President, was 

 taken by Dr. Jago, F E.S. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The. Secretary then read the Report of the Council as 

 follows : — 



In preparing a summary of the proceedings of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall for the past year, the Council have the 

 pleasure in submitting to the Members a Report, which on the 

 whole must be deemed satisfactory, inasmuch as it shews a 

 steady progi'ess in all the branches connected with our Society. 

 Since our last Annual Meeting, we have had the accession of 

 the following nine new Membars, — Mr. John Barrett, Mr. W. B. 

 Blenkinsop, Mr. H. W. Vinter, B.A., Mr. Arthur E. Adams, 

 Mr. W. Whitehouse, Mr. Edmund Rundle, Mr. Edwin Dunkin, 

 F.R.S., (President Royal Astronomical Society), Mr. Gr. B. 

 Pearce, and the Rev. T. M. Comyns. We have, however, 

 on the other hand, to regret the loss by death of three Members, 

 viz: — Sir John S. Trelawney, Bart., Miss Nankivell, and Mr. 

 W. Tweed}'. By the death of Sir J. Salusbury Trelawney, 

 the 9th Baronet of an ancient and honorable Cornish house, 

 the Royal Institution has lost a worthy Member. He was 

 through family intermarriages a descendant of the famous 

 Bishop of Bristol, who was imprisoned bj' James II. Sir Jolm 

 himself held important public appointments in Cornwall, and 

 was for some years Member of Parliament for the Eastern 

 Division of the County. In Parliament he moved for a 

 Committee to enquire into the management of the Duchy, and 



