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JOURNAL OP THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
of the party afterwards proceeded on foot by the way of the ancient 
Pack Horse Bridge, the Cleave, and curious Nutcracker Kock, to 
Lustleigh, where the whole party eventually assembled at a 
sumptuous tea, provided at the Cleave Hotel, returning to Plymouth 
by a late train. 
The first Conversazione was held on October 6th, when the walls 
of the lecture hall were decorated with a large number of paintings 
by local artists, members of the Art Club, and others, whose 
exhibition of works had just terminated. 
The second Conversazione was held on the 5th January, 1882. 
Tins was of a scientific character, and the following apparatus was 
exhibited and explained, and some interesting experiments were 
shown ; viz. : 
Gas Assay Furnace, by Dr. R. Oxland, f.c.s. 
Electricity and Heat, by Mr. Teeglohan. 
Faure Battery and Electric Apparatus, by Mr. Thos. N. Andrews. 
Electric Pen, by Mr. F. J. Webb, f.g.s. 
Microscopes with Foraminifera, by Mr. F. H. Balkwill. 
Photographs on Platina Paper, by Mr. W. Gage Tweedy, b.a. 
During the evening Miss Marian McKenzie and the Misses Risk 
kindly favoured the company with several songs and duets. 
The Curator of the Library reports : 
"The following is a list of the Transactions and Reports of 
Societies received by the Plymouth Institution for the Library 
during the past year in return for its own ' Transactions : ' 
Australia — ' Annual Report of the Adelaide Hospital,' 1880 ; 
'Report of Progress and Condition of Botanic Garden, Adelaide,' 
1881. Belfast — 'Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast 
Naturalists' Field Club,' vol. i. part 7, series ii., 1879-80. Ber- 
wickshire — 'Proceedings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club,' 
vol. ix. part 2. Bristol — ' Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' 
Society/ vol. hi. part 2 ; ' Catalogue of Library.' Cornwall — 
' Royal Institution of Cornwall,' vol. vii. part 1, August, 1881 ; 
'Polytechnic Reports,' 1878, 1880. Dublin — 'Transactions of the 
Royal Dublin Society,' vol. i. parts 13, 14, series ii. ; ' Proceedings,' 
vol. ii. part 7, vol. iii. parts 1-4. Edinburgh — ' Transactions and 
Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh,' vol. xiv. part 
2. Essex — 'Transactions of the Epping Forest and Essex Natural- 
ists' Field Club,' vol. ii. parts 4, 5. Glasgow — ' Proceedings of the 
