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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The Curator of Anthropology reports that the valuable specimens 
in his charge have been arranged in the wall-cases at the east end 
of the hall, or as trophies at either end of the gallery ; whilst the 
objects of antiquity have been placed in cases on the floor of the 
hall. The Society is to be congratulated in possessing, amongst 
other objects, two rare tablets, having inscriptions in the cuneiform 
character, a translation of which, not hitherto made, has been 
promised by the Eev. George Evans, m.a. 
" Most of the objects have now been labelled. 
" A valuable collection of flint implements has been presented 
by Mr. B. Mortimer, of Fimber." 
The Curator of Mineralogy writes : 
" Several good specimens of valuable minerals have been pre- 
sented by Messrs. Brent, Worth, Webb, C. Oxland, and others. 
"The arrangement of the collection is nearly complete; the 
labelling will be proceeded with as rapidly as possible, in such 
manner as to render a fairly good collection as useful as may be. 
There are many vacancies yet to be filled up. It is hoped that some 
of the duplicates will prove serviceable as exchanges for specimens 
that are wanted, of which a list is in course of preparation." 
The Curator of Petrology reports : " This department now 
contains upwards of 1200 specimens, representing all the chief 
varieties of local rocks, with examples of the more characteristic 
rocks from other parts of Devon and Cornwall ; in addition to the 
collections, chiefly of foreign rocks, which the Society possessed 
last year, and which are specially valuable in illustration of the 
igneous group. A small but good typical collection for study and 
reference has also been added. Your Curator has the pleasure of 
reporting the discovery by himself of a rock entirely new to science, 
which he has named Trowlesworthite, specimens of which are 
placed in the cases. Your Curator hopes during the coming year, 
by obtaining further gifts and by his own researches, to make the 
representation of the rocks of the West of England fairly complete; 
and to afford room for this, begs to recommend that two new wall 
cases be provided, which he believes will suffice." 
JAMES C. INGLIS, » 
AKTHUR J. JEWERS, I 
