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employed. Apart, liowever, from this bequest, bhe balance is a 

 substantial one, and will bear favorable comparison with that of 

 any former year. As a contrast to this, the late Dr. Barham 

 stated a few years since, that when he joined the Society there 

 was a debt of £1600 hanging over it. 



The 30th Journal has been issued since the last Annual 

 Meeting, and contains many articles of much interest. The 

 Council feel that much of the success of the Journal must be 

 attributed to the efforts of the honorary editor, Mr. H. Miehell 

 "Whitley, to whom they feel they owe a deep debt of gratitude. 

 It must be gratifying to the Members generally, to find that 

 fresh applications for the supply of the Journal are frequently 

 made, and that it is to be found in the Libraries of many of the 

 learned Societies in the British Isles and America. The Index 

 to the volume will be published with the first number of volume 

 IX. It will be seen by reference to the last issue that the 

 Journal affords a valuable means of recording a great variety 

 of facts, useful to all who would study the history and character- 

 istics of the western peninsula. 



The papers last printed may be summarized as giving an 

 encouraging account of the present state of the Institution, and 

 its proposed extension. The number comprises a Eeport of its 

 Meetings, and of the exploration of a part of Cornwall, replete 

 with interest; a brief but highly important statement by Mr. 

 "Whitley, F.M.S., concerning the Post Glacial Period ; treatises 

 on Cornish Archaeology, Old Customs, and Localities, by the late 

 Sir Eichard Vyvyan, Bart., by Mr. Blight, Eev. W. lago. Eev. 

 W. S. Lach-Szyrma, and Mr. H. Miehell "Whitley ; Botanical 

 Notes by Mr.,T. A. Cragoe, F.E.G.S. ; and the result of 40 years 

 observations of the climate of Cornwall, by the late Charles 

 Barham, M.D., whose calculations are so clearly tabulated, that 

 they form within a convenient compass a most valuable 

 Meteorological work. 



Mr. Pendarves Vivian's two years tenure in oflB.ce expires 

 to day, and your Council have pleasure in proposing the Eev. 

 "W. lago, B. A., Local Sec. S.A., as his successor, feeling sure 

 that his varied attainments and sedulous use of them, which 

 have always been at the service of this Institution, will add to 

 its prosperity. 



