LOCAL LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT. 
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the religion, and afterwards the trade and pleasure of our ancestors. 
These relics are fast dissolving; soon the generation of fair and 
revel-goers will disappear also, and with it a rich mine of folk-lore, 
traditions, and customs will be for ever lost. 
DIGESTION. 
ABSTRACT OF PAPER BY MR. W. SQUARE, F.R.C.S. 
(Read December 19th, 1878.) 
The subject of digestion was treated under the following heads : 
Mastication; deglutition, a complicated act; digestion in the 
stomach; the gastric juice; the digestion in the small intestine; 
its various organs ; Brunner's glands ; villi ; Liebevkuhn's follicles ; 
Peyer's patches; the bile and pancreatic secretion; digestion in the 
large intestine. 
LOCAL LITEEATUKE PAST AND PPvESENT. 
SYLLABUS OF PAPER BY MR. W. H. K. WRIGHT, F.R.H.S. 
(Read January 16th, 1879.) 
General remarks. Introductory. National Literature and Li- 
braries. Local literature ; advantages of special collections in local 
libraries. Early writers ; theological writers ; artist-authors ; scien- 
tific writers; poets and writers of fiction. Biographical and 
historical works. Publications on the manufactures, trade, and 
commerce of the district. Periodical publications ; magazines, 
newspapers, &c. Guide-book literature. General and topographical 
works. Literary curiosities. Local literary institutions ; their 
origin, growth, and present positions. Claims for a Devon and 
Cornwall representative library. Conclusion. 
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