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discussion. The other lectures have been of varied character, 
and, we believe, have not been inferior in regard to the ability 
displayed or the interest they excited to those which have been 
read before the Society in former years. 
The attendance of members of the Institution has not been less 
numerous than in former years; and the discussions, always a 
distinguishing feature of the meetings of the Society, have been 
well sustained. 
At the Anniversary Meeting, on the 1st May last, Mr. C. 
Spence Bate, F.R.S., gave some account of his discoveries respecting 
the Dentition of the Mole ; and papers were read by the President 
and by Mr. Shelly. 
As in former years the Society owes much to Mr. Philip Mitchell, 
the Curator of Fine Arts, for his efforts in bringing together a 
large collection of paintings at the Annual Conversazione in 
January. The pictures then exhibited were chiefly obtained from 
the collections of Dr. Yonge and Mr. William Eastlake, but many 
sketches and portfolios of drawings were contributed by local 
artists. In the winter the Monday Evening Fortnightly Meetings 
of members were revived, and at them the following papers were 
read ; — 
On some recent Eesearches in Constantine Bay, North Cornwall, by 
C. Spence Bate, F.K.S., F.L.S., who exhibited some bone pins, awls and 
knife, pottery, animal remains, and flint flakes, that he had found in a 
kjokken-modding overlying an old raised beach. 
On the Chemical Condition of certain local Building Materials, by E. Oxland. 
On a Porpoise and other Cetacea recently procured in the neighbourhood, 
and added to the Museum, by J. Bkooking Eowe. 
In their last Report your Secretaries mentioned that the British 
Association had been invited to hold a meeting at Plymouth. We 
have now to report that an invitation having been sent to the 
Association by the City of Exeter, it was agreed to refer the claims 
of the two places to the last three Presidents of the Association 
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