500 The Devonshire Association. [Oct., 



printed — was a portly octavo volume of 537 pages. Up to this 

 time the annual issues form three goodly volumes; and the first 

 part of the fourth volume, or the fourth volume complete, according 

 to the quantity of matter, will be printed before the end of October. 

 They contain a vast amount of information respecting the county 

 of Devon, together with matter of a more general nature. 



Every author receives gratuitously twenty-five reprints of his 

 paper, and may arrange with the printer for any greater number. 



The next annual meeting will be held at Bideford, commencing 

 August 2nd, 1871, when the Eev. Canon Kingsley will be the 

 President. 



The inhabitants of the towns in which the meetings have been 

 held have always given the Association a cordial welcome. A large 

 amount of both public and private hospitality has been displayed, 

 a conversazione has commonly occupied one of the evenings, and the 

 day after the close of the meeting has usually been spent in some 

 picnic or fete. 



It may be stated, in conclusion, that the Devonshire Association 

 originated with men who were and still are members of the British 

 Association, and whose active work for the offspring has not caused 

 them to work a whit the less for the parent. 



