Excerpt from The Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall: Instituted on the Fifth of February, 1818 The responsibility of editing our publications has now devolved on the officers of the Institution, and, aided as they will be by the writers of papers, the duty 'will doubtless be well performed 5 but the practised skill and literary acquirements of Mr. Chorley will not fail to be often missed. It is to be hoped that the valu able summary prepared by him for the Journal for a good many years past under the title of Chronological Notes will be con tinned by some 'of our members Who may be able to devote a portion of their leisure to this purpose. The Journal which has been issued since the last meeting contains a number of papers of Antiquarian, Mineralogical and general interest and fully maintains its character of usefulness. It is to be hoped that mine-surgeons will follow the example set by Dr. Hudson of Redruth and furnish the Institution with further observations On Dynamite in its Sanitary Aspect. The value of dynamite as an explosive cannot be overrated 5 but at the same time it is important to ascertain from mine-surgeons whether or not the constant use of it is in any way injurious to the health of the miners. The new volume of the Journal now in the press will soon be completed and sent out to the subscribers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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