Prepaid Annual Contributions for 1887-8 12 1

6 13 0

£367 12

1

100
11 12 6

July, 1885

4 4

0

STATEMENT OF THE PROPERTY OF THE ASSOCIATION,

July 26th, 1887.

£ 8. d.

Funded Property, Consols

Arrears of Annual Contributions (valued at).

"Transactions" in Stock, 1863 ... 79 copies at 2s. Od.

"When the number of copies on hand of any 'Part' of the Transactions is reduced to twenty, the price per copy shall be increased 25 per cent.; and when the number has been reduced to ten copies, the price shall be increased 50 per cent. on the original price."-Standing Order, No. 24.

The "Transactions" in stock are insured against fire in the sum of £200. The vols. published in 1862, 1869, and 1872 are out of print.

SELECTED MINUTES OF COUNCIL, APPOINTING COMMITTEES.

Passed at the Meeting at Plympton,

JULY, 1887.

8. That Rev. Professor Chapman, Rev. W. Harpley, Sir J. B. Phear, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and Rev. Dr. Dallinger be a Committee for the purpose of considering at what place the Association shall hold its Meeting in 1889, who shall be invited to be the Officers during the year beginning with that Meeting, and who shall be invited to fill any official vacancy or vacancies which may occur before the Annual Meeting in 1888; that Mr. Harpley be the Secretary; and that they be requested to report to the next Winter Meeting of the Council, and, if necessary, to the first Meeting of the Council to be held in July, 1888.

9. That Mr. F. Brent, Mr. T. R. A. Briggs, Mr. George Doe, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. H. S. Gill, Mr. E. Parfitt, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and Mr. R. N. Worth be a Committee for the purpose of noting the discovery or occurrence of such Facts in any department of scientific inquiry, and connected with Devonshire, as it may be desirable to place on permanent record, but which may not be of sufficient importance in themselves to form the subjects of separate papers; and that Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be the Secretary.

10. That Mr. P. F. S. Amery, Mr. George Doe, Mr. R. Dymond, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. P. Q. Karkeek, and Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be a Committee for the purpose of collecting notes on Devonshire Folk-Lore; and that Mr. George Doe be the Secretary.

11. That Mr. R. W. Cotton, Mr. R. Dymond, Mr. P. Q. Karkeek, Sir J. H. Kennaway, Mr. E. Windeatt, and Mr. R. N. Worth be a Committee for the purpose of compiling a list of deceased Devonshire Celebrities, as well as an Index of the entire Bibliography having reference to them; and that Mr. R. W. Cotton be the Secretary.

12. That Dr. Brushfield, Lord Clifford, Mr. R. Dymond, Mr. A. H. A. Hamilton, Mr. G. Pycroft, Mr. J. Shelly, and Mr. R. N. Worth be a Committee to prepare a Report on the Public and Private Collections of Works of Art in Devonshire; and that Mr. J. Shelly be the Secretary.

13. That Mr. J. S. Amery, Dr. Brushfield, Mr. G. Doe, Mr. R. Dymond, Mr. F. T. Elworthy, Mr. F. H. Firth, Mr. P. O. Hutchinson, Mr. P. Q. Karkeek, and Dr. W. C. Lake be a Committee for the purpose of noting and recording the existing use of any Verbal Provincialisms in Devonshire, in either written or spoken language; and that Mr. F. T. Elworthy be the Secretary.

14. That Mr. J. S. Amery, Mr. G. Doe, Mr. R. Dymond, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. P. O. Hutchinson, Sir John B. Phear, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and Mr. R. N. Worth be a Committee for editing and annotating such parts of Domesday Book as relate to Devonshire; and that Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be the Secretary.

15. That Mr. P. F. S. Amery, Mr. G. Doe, Mr. P. O. Hutchinson, Mr. E. Parfitt, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and Mr. R. N. Worth be a Committee to collect and record facts relating to Barrows in Devonshire, and to take steps, where possible, for their investigation ; and that Mr. R. N. Worth be the Secretary.

16. That Mr. A. H. Dymond, Mr. F. H. Firth, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. E. Parfitt, Mr. R. C. Tucker, and Mr. R. W. Cotton be a Committee for the purpose of making the arrangements for the Association dinner at Exeter, in 1888; and that Mr. R. C. Tucker be the Secretary.

17. That Mr. James Hamlyn, Mr. E. E. Glyde, Mr. E. Parfitt, and Mr. P. F. S. Amery be a Committee to collect and tabulate trustworthy and comparable observations on the climate of Devon; and that Mr. P. F. S. Amery be the Secretary.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-It is impossible to occupy the position of honour to which I have been called by this Association, without a perception of the grave responsibilities it involves. I cannot but remember that the primal and continuous reason for the existence of the Association is "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." And truly no higher intellectual aim, no nobler motive, can kindle us, either to individual or united action. The progress of the Natural and Physical Sciences, and a broadening perception of their profound organic union with Literature and Art, however reluctantly accepted by some minds, must ultimately claim for itself universal admission. In one aspect, Science is an idealization of the methods of Nature; it reduces a tangle of sensations, and an apparently irreducible complexity of phenomena, to a symmetrical vision of beauty and order. And Art, which in a large and not illegitimate sense, may enfold within its area every noble work of hand or intellect, or both, is also the idealization of Nature. The man of science, the artist, the poet, the man of letters, all approach Nature by different paths, each in his own way to be quickened under his perception of her beauty, her order, her rhythm, her inexpressible grandeur; and then, in the language that is essentially his own, each expresses that beauty to us. To each Nature is something to love, to labour with, and to lead to richer knowledge. They must each be lovers, observers, students, disciples. The art of observation has given to the patient sons of Science their noble victories, and, vitalized with individual insight, it has been the very art of Art.