8 Annual Report and Transactions of the Plijmouth Institution, 
Four of these were of local interest, and for that reason are now 
especially mentioned. Two were delivered by Mr. Pengelly ; — the 
first being on The Evidences of the Bone Caverns in the Torbay 
District, on the Antiquity of the Human Race," — and the second on 
" The Sandstones and Conglomerates of Devon," being a continua- 
tion of one, on the same subject, previously delivered, and printed in 
the Transactions of last year. The third Lecture was on The 
Flora of Tavistock," by Mr. Keys, and the fourth on " The Verte- 
brates of Devon," by one of your Secretaries. The series of papers, 
having for their object the scientific investigation of the counties with 
which the Society is identified, has thus been continued, and it is 
hoped that no future Session v\^ill pass without additions to it. 
Something similar may be accomplished in relation to the Antiquities 
and Fine Arts of the Counties. 
The Lecture just alluded to as having been delivered by Mr. 
Pengelly on The Antiquity of the Human Race " is invested with 
peculiar interest, not only on account of the attention bestowed by 
Naturalists throughout the world, at the present time, on its subject, 
but, also, because it is upon Mr. Pengelly's investigations and dis- 
coveries that Sir Charles Lyell, in his recently published work,-;^ lays 
great stress and elicits from them some of his strongest arguments. 
Mr. Pengelly's paper, in continuation of the one printed last 
year, on the Sandstones and Conglomerates of Devon — Mr. J. J. 
Reading's List of the Lepidoptera of Devon and Cornwall, Part 11 — 
Mr. J. Brooking Rowe's Lists of the Devonshire Mammals and 
Reptiles — and a List of the Birds of Devon and Cornwall, by Mr. 
E. Hearle Rodd, one of our corresponding Members, and Mr. J. 
Brooking Rowe, — all but the first, in continuation of the Fauna of 
the two Counties, are published with this Report. 
It was on Monday, September 8th, 1862, that this Society held its 
first Field-day. Thirty of the Members and Associates were met at 
Tavistock by several gentlemen of that town, whose tastes led 
them to take an interest in the proceedings of the day ; three parties 
were then formed for excursions in different directions, viz. : — 
Endsleigh, Peter Tavy, and Staple Tor, and Prince Town. At the gen- 
eral reunion of excursionists, — which took place in the evening, at 
the Bedford Hotel, Tavistock, — accounts of the day's rambles were 
interchanged, comprising, among other matters, historical and anti- 
quarian details as to Tavistock, a botanical ramble to Peter Tavy, 
and a visit of exploration to the Druidical Circles at Merivale Bridge. 
The paper on the Flora of Tavistock, which was read to the Society 
on the 5th of February last, m;iy be instanced as one result of the 
Field-day. 
The Annual Conversazione was a decidedly successful one. This 
* "The Antiquity of Man," by Sir C. Lyell, F.R.S., 8vo., Lend, 1863. 
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