The following Table shows the progress and present state of the Association with respect to the number of Members.

The following Table shows the number of copies of each Part of the 'Transactions' now in stock, and the price per copy of each Part.

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BYE-LAWS.

1. THE Association shall be styled the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art.

2. The objects of the Association are-To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry in Devonshire; and to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science, Literature, or Art, in different parts of the county.

3. The Association shall consist of Members, Honorary Members, and Corresponding Members.

4. Every candidate for membership, on being nominated by a Member to whom he is personally known, shall be admitted by the General Secretary, subject to the confirmation of the General Meeting of the Members.

5. Persons of eminence in Literature, Science, or Art, connected with the West of England, but not resident in Devonshire, may, at a General Meeting of the Members, be elected Honorary Members of the Association; and persons not resident in the county, who feel an interest in the Association, may be elected Corresponding Members.

6. Every Member shall pay an Annual Contribution of ten shillings, or a Life Composition of five pounds.

7. Associates for the Annual Meeting only shall pay the sum of five shillings; and Ladies the sum of two shillings and sixpence. 8. Every Member shall be entitled gratuitously to a lady's

ticket.

9. The Association shall meet annually, at such a time and place as shall be decided on at the previous Annual Meeting.

10. A President, two or more Vice-Presidents, a General Treasurer, one or more General Secretaries, and a Council shall be elected at each Annual Meeting.

11. The President shall not be eligible for re-election.

12. Each Annual Meeting shall appoint a local Treasurer and Secretary, who, with power to add to their number any Members of the Association, shall be a local Committee, to assist in making such local arrangements as may be desirable.

13. In the intervals of the Annual Meetings, the affairs of the

Association shall be managed by the Council; the General and Local Officers, and Officers elect, being ex officio Members.

14. The General Treasurer and Secretaries, and the Council, shall enter on their respective offices at the Meeting at which they are elected; but the President, Vice-Presidents, and Local Officers, not until the Annual Meeting next following.

15. All Members of the Council must be Members of the Association.

16. The Council shall have power to fill any Official vacancy which may occur in the intervals of the Annual Meetings.

17. The Annual Contributions shall be payable in advance, and shall be due in each year on the day of the Annual Meeting.

18. The Treasurer shall receive all sums of money due to the Association; he shall pay all accounts due by the Association after they shall have been examined and approved; and he shall report to each Meeting of the Council the balance he has in hand, and the names of such Members as shall be in arrear, with the sums due respectively by each.

19. Whenever a Member shall have been three months in arrear in the payment of his Annual Contributions, the Treasurer shall apply to him for the same.

20. Whenever, at an Annual Meeting, a Member shall be two years in arrear in the payment of his Annual Contributions, the Council may, at its discretion, erase his name from the list of Members.

21. The General Secretaries shall, at least one month before each Annual Meeting, inform each Member, by circular, of the place and date of the Meeting.

22. Members who do not, on or before the day of the Annual Meeting, give notice, in writing or personally, to one of the General Secretaries, of their intention to withdraw from the Association, shall be regarded as Members for the ensuing year.

23. The Association shall, within three months after each Annual Meeting, publish its Transactions, including the Laws, a Financial Statement, a List of the Members, the Report of the Council, the President's Address, and such papers, in abstract or in extenso, read at the Annual Meeting, as shall be decided by the Council.

24. Every Member shall receive gratuitously a copy of the Transactions.

25. The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Auditors appointed at each Annual Meeting, but who shall not be ex officio Members of the Council.

THE REPORT OF THE COUNCIL,

As presented at the General Meeting, at Honiton, July 28th, 1868.

THE Sixth Annual Meeting held at Barnstaple, in July last, was the most successful hitherto held, both as regards the number of papers read and discussed, and the attendance of Members and Associates during the meeting.

The Meeting commenced on Tuesday, July 23rd. The Council and members of the Association were met on their arrival at the Railway Station by the Mayor and Corporate body, accompanied by the Council of the Barnstaple Literary and Scientific Institution, and escorted by them to the spacious building belonging to the latter, in whose commodious rooms the business of the Association was conducted throughout the meeting. A Council Meeting having been immediately held, at its close a most hearty welcome was accorded to the whole of the members in the Guildhall by the Mayor, R. Farleigh, Esq., who had caused an elaborate luncheon to be provided.

In the evening the President, W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., &c., delivered his Introductory Address.

On Wednesday the 24th, the Association met at 11 o'clock a.m., and commenced the reading and discussion of the following programme of papers:

On Devonian Folk-lore

On some Popular Local Superstitions

On the part taken by North Devon in the

Sir J. Bowring, LL.D., F.R.S.
J. R. Chanter, Esq.

Earliest English Enterprises for the pur- R. W. Cotton, Esq.

pose of Colonizing America

On the Priory of St. Mary's, Pilton

Townshend M. Hall, Esq.

On an Ancient Chapel at Barnstaple

C. Johnson, Esq.

On the Remains of Ancient Fortifications in
in J. A. Parry, Esq.

the neighbourhood of Bideford

On the Ancient History and Aborigines of

North Devon, and the site of the lost Cim-J. R. Chanter, Esq.
bric Town, Artavia

The Temperature of the Ancient World
The Antiquity of Man in the South West of

England

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On Prison Discipline

C. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S.

W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., etc.

H. Fowler, Esq.

Rev. J. L. May.

C. Spence Bate, Esq.

G. W Ormerod, M.A., F.G.S.

W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., ETC.

} Alfred S. Kingdon, M.D.

E. Vivian, Esq.

The Distribution of the Devonian Brachiopoda W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.8., ETC.

of Devonshire and Cornwall

On the Annelids of Devon, with a Resumé of

the Natural History of the County, past E. Parfitt, Esq., M.E.S.
and present

On the Parasitism of Orbanche Major
Notes on the Meteoric Shower of November, 1866
On Murchisonite Pebbles and Boulders in the
Trias

On the Floatation of Clouds and the Fall of Rain
On St. John's Church, Torquay, struck by
Lightning

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E. Parfitt, Esq., M.E.S.
W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., ETC.
W. Vicary, Esq., F.G.S.
W.Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., etc.
E. Vivian, Esq., M.a.

J. Jerwood, Esq., M.A., F.G.S.,

F.C.P.S.

W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S.

On the Longitude of Places and the application
of the Electric Telegraph to determine it)
On the Deposits occupying the Valley between
the Braddon and Waldon Hills, Torquay
On some Mammalian Bones and Teeth recently H. S. Ellis, F.R.A.S.
found in the Submerged Forest at Northam)

During the day refreshment was sumptuously provided in an adjoining room by W. F. Rock, Esq., President of the Institution, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association.

In the evening the Association Dinner, which also was more numerously attended than on any previous occasion, took place at the Golden Lion Hotel, after which a very large number of members partook of the hospitality of J. R. Chanter, Esq. and Mrs. Chanter, at their residence at Fort Hill, where a fine collection of works of art,-Geological