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The Library has again received considerable attention 

 during the past year, and it is satisfactory to know that all 

 periodicals are complete, and bound up to the present date. 

 Our shelves are now filled chiefly through exchanges of 

 publications with other Societies, with the transactions of 

 many of the learned Societies of the British Isles, the Colonies, 

 America, and of several Continental Countries. Our Library, 

 therefore, is becoming of considerable importance, and it is 

 undoubtedly a great boon to students in this neighbourhood. 

 A long-felt want connected with the Library, will, it ia hoped, 

 by the time the Spring Meeting comes round, be supplied by 

 the completion of a Catalogue, which is now being made under 

 the superintendence of the Eev. Canon Moor, M.R.A.S., one of 

 our Vice-Presidents. 



Through the valuable labours of Mr. Snell, one of our 

 esteemed members, the excellent, if not in many respects unique, 

 Botanical collection belonging to this Institution has been 

 carefully arranged. It would appear that about half a century 

 ago there existed in Truro, a Horticultural Society of some 

 considerable standing, and that two of its lady members, who 

 had an extensive acquaintance with systematic Botany, collected 

 and arranged a large number of plants. The assortment 

 comprises the Lichens, Algae, Mosses, Ferns, and other Cryp- 

 togamous Plants, together with the Phanerogams, indigenous 

 to our County, and also those not natives of Cornwall. There 

 are two volumes of beautiful specimens from Dominica, 

 contributed by the late Mr. John Hockin, and in addition to the 

 28 large volumes, mostly of Arboreous species, representing the 

 luxuriant Floras of India, Ceylon, Assam, &c., presented by the 

 late General Jenkins, whose name must be familiar to every one 

 interested in this Institution, by the numerous presents he 

 continually sent to our Museum during the greater part of his 

 lifetime. Many of the species of this collection of General 

 Jenkins have been named by the late Sir W. S. Hooker, Bart., 

 father of the present Director of Kew Gardens. This varied 

 and comprehensive assemblage of plants was brought together 

 mainly by the untiring energy and assiduity of the late Miss E. 

 A. Warren of Flushing, and Miss E. Stackhovise of Trehane, in 

 this County, assisted by many willing hands, many of whose 



