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how popularly he could employ his talents, and how well he could 
use the stores of information at his command. Mr. Henwood's 
memory was also most retentive. He knew something of every 
leading man in the county, and about every locality. His con- 
versation, therefore, was most instructive, and was made the more 
enjoyable by his store of anecdote, which seemed unfailing. Mr. 
Henwood was born at Perran Wharf, near Truro, January 16th, 
1805. He was the eldest son of John and Mary Jory Henwood. 
"The Bibliotheca Cornubiensis " records that in 1828 he wrote on 
the steam-engine; in 1830 supplied the Cornish mining terms for 
" English's Glossary of Mining Terms;" and from 1832 to 1838 was 
the Assay Master and Supervisor of Tin in the Duchy of Cornwall ; 
and he was so voluminous a writer that the enumeration of his works 
and papers occupies nearly seven columns of the admirable book we 
are quoting from. His chief works were on metalliferous deposits 
and mineral veins, his observations on which constitute three large 
volumes of the " Transactions of the Eoyal Cornwall Geological 
Society," and gained for Mr. Henwood a few months before his 
death the Murchison medal of the Geological Society of London. 
Mr. Henwood died of heart disease in August, 1875. 
OCCURRENCE OE SABINE'S SNIPE NEAR PENZANCE. 
I observed a very good example of this variety of snipe a day or 
two since. It was killed near the celebrated Lanyon Cromlech, in 
Madron. It uttered when roused the same lisping screech as the 
common snipe. It is difficult to say whether this bird has any 
specific value, or is a permanent variety of the common species. 
Mr. Gould does not admit its specific value ; and the number of tail- 
feathers appears not to be confined to twelve, which was looked 
upon formerly as a good point of distinction. One I examined some 
years since had fourteen, and, strange to say, the present example 
evidently had fourteen belonging to it, although I could count but 
twelve actually existing ; but there was evidently the space for 
two more on one side, and the perfect side of the tail had seven 
feathers. Edward Hearle Rodd. 
renzance, January 8th, 1876. 
