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of Cornwall,’ by Lord de Dunstanville; ‘The Circle; or, Historical 
Survey of Sixty Parishes and Towns in Cornwall,’ Helston, 1819 ; 
‘Lach-Szyrma’s History of Penzance and Neighbourhood ;’ 
‘Maclean’s Trigg Minor, part 13; ‘ Millett’s First Book of the 
Parish Registers of Madron,’ extending from 1577-1700; 
‘Williams’s Cornish Dictionary ;’ ‘ Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,’ 
vol. ii; ‘Hitchens and Drew’s History of Cornwall,’ 2 vols. ; 
Collins’s Moissenet’s Lodes of Cornwall ;’ ‘Greenwell and Rolle- 
stone’s British Barrows ;’ ‘Parker and Bettany’s Morphology of 
the Skull ;’ ‘Volume xxxi. of the Series of the Palzontographical 
Society ;’ ‘Geological Record,’ 1875 ; ‘ Zoological Record,’ vol. xii, 
1875 ; ‘Darwin’s Forms of Flowers, and Cross and Self-fertiliza- 
tion of Flowers ;’ ‘ Heckel’s History of Creation,’ 2 vols. ; ‘Cursor 
Mundi,’ ‘Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman,’ part 4, ‘The 
Holy Grail,’ part 3, and ‘ Barbour’s ees of the English Text 
Society. 
“The Librarian is sorry to have to report that ‘ Bottrell’s Tradi- 
tions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall’ (first series) is 
missing from the Library, also ‘Murchison’s Silurian System,’ 
1814, and ‘Shea’s Animal Physiology.’ 
“‘ Before concluding his Report, he has to bring before the 
Members of the Society a matter that demands their immediate 
attention—the want of additional shelves for the books. At 
present the compartments are filled to an extent that prevents a 
due arrangement and assortment of the volumes. The walls of the 
room afford sufficient space for the construction of one or two 
additional shelves above the present cases, on which works only 
rarely used might be arranged. He considers that the fixing of these 
shelves would be the best way of overcoming the difficulty. One 
other plan, however, suggests itself—the weeding out from the 
Library of all the works that might be considered of little or no 
value. Hethinks, however, that the worth of many would be found 
to be so much a matter of opinion, that this latter plan would 
prove a difficult one to carry out.” 
The Curator of Fine Arts reports : 
“The Society is to be congratulated on the acquisition of four 
valuable paintings during the past Session, which are now on the 
walls of the Lecture Hall. 
