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Notes. 
The evidence of Colonel Donnelly, the Assistant-Secretary and 
Director for Science, was then taken, and that of Sir P. Cunliffe 
Owen, K.C.M.G., the Director of the South Kensington Museum, 
and Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., was to follow. 
At the suggestion of several friends in Cornwall Mr. Quick is 
about to re-publish, in one volume, by subscription, his historical 
and descriptive Essays on the Mining, the China Clay Trade, 
and the Pilchard Fisheries of Cornwall, which have from time to 
time appeared in the “Journal of Science,” “ Fraser’s Magazine,” 
and other periodicals. These Essays trace the earliest records 
of Cornish mining, describe the old Stannary Parliaments, deal 
largely with the peculiar characteristics and strange superstitions 
of the old miners and fishermen, and give avast amount of other 
information respecting Cornish industries. Price to subscribers 
4 s. 6 d., which should be sent by Post-Office Order to Eastern 
District Post-Office, London, to Mr. Jas. Quick, n, Agnes Street, 
Burdett Road, London, E. 
