OF THE

DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION

FOR

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE,
AND ART.

[ILFRACOMBE, JULY, 1879.]

LIBRARY

VOL. XI.

PLYMOUTH:

W. BRENDON & SON, 26, GEORGE STREET.

All rights reserved.

The Editor is requested by the Council to make it known to the Public, that the Committees and Authors alone are responsible for the facts and opinions contained in their respective Reports and Papers.

It is hoped that Members will be so good as to send to the Editor, the Rev. W. HARPLEY, Clayhanger Rectory, Tiverton, not later than 16th January, 1880, a list of any errata they may have detected in the present volume.

CONTENTS.

List of Officers

Table showing the Places and Times of Meeting, &c.

Rules

Bye-laws and Standing Orders

Report.

Balance Sheet

Property

Resolutions appointing Committees

President's Address

Obituary Notices-William Rutter Bayley, M. A.-George Parker Bidder
-Mrs. Hannah Brown-William Richard Crabbe, F. S. A.-John
Creed-William Froude, M. A., F. R.S.-Richard John King, M. A. —
Thomas Oldham, F. R.S.-John Smale Torr-Sir Walter Calverly
Trevelyan, Bart.-Rev. Thomas Bury Wells, m. A.

Fourth Report of the Committee on the Meteorology of Devonshire.

W. C. Lake, M. D., F. M.S.

Fourth Report of the Committee on Scientific Memoranda.

Pengelly, F. R.S., F.G.S.

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W.

Fourth Report of the Committee on Devonshire Folk-Lore. G. Doe

Third Report of the Committee on Devonshire Celebrities. Rev.

Treasurer Hawker, M. A.

Third Report of the Committee on Dartmoor.

W. F. Collier

Third Report of the Committee on Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms.

F. H. Firth

78

103

112

117

122

First Report of the Committee on Barrows. R. N. Worth, F.G.S.

Notes on the Older Times of Ilfracombe. Mrs. Slade-King

The North Devon Fleet in 1588. R. W. Cotton

History of the Classification and Nomenclature of the North Devon

Rocks. T. M. Hall, F.G.S.

Vestiges of an Early Guild of St. Nicholas at Barnstaple, A. D. 1303.

J. R. Chanter

The Parish Expenditure of Milton Abbot, Devon. W. Pengelly, F. R.S.

Bishop Jewel's Birthplace. Rev. Treasurer Hawker, M.A.

“Manly Peeke, of Tavistock." J. Brooking Rowe, F.S.A., F.L.S.

On the Geology of the Ilfracombe Coast-line. T. M. Hall, F.G.S.

Lydford and its Castle. R. N. Worth, F. G.S.

Archæological Discoveries in Exeter, 1878-9.

On a Block of Granite from the Salcombe Fishing Grounds. Arthur

Roope Hunt, M. A., F.G.S.

The Metamorphosis of the Rocks extending from Hope Cove to Start

Bay, South Devon. W. Pengelly, F. R.S., F. G. S.

Collectanea curiosa Devoniensia. Part ii. P. Q. Karkeek

State of the Volunteers of Devonshire in the year 1803. A. H. A.

Hamilton

Page

319

343

348

Notes on some Errors relating to North Devon. T. M. Hall, F.G.S.

352

388

386

422

Fossil Plant, discovered near Sidmouth. P. O. Hutchinson

The Fauna of Devon-Neuroptera. E. Parfitt

On the Deposits of Petrockstow, in Devon. W. A. E. Ussher, F.G.S.

Note on the Occurrence of Granite Boulders near Barnstaple, and of a

Vein of Granitoid Rock at Portledge. T. M. Hall, F.G.S.

The Limestones of Westleigh and Holcombe Rogus. Rev. W. Downes,

B. A., F. G.S.

Hoker's Journal of the House of Commons in 1571. J. B. Davidson, M. A.

The Manor House, Berrynarbor. Rev. Treasurer Hawker, M. A.

Notes on the History of Printing in Devon. R. N. Worth, F.G.S.

Sessile-Eyed Crustacea of Devon, Supplementary List. Rev. T. R. R.

Stebbing, M. A.

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433

442

493

497

Notes on Recent Notices of the Geology and Palæontology of Devon-
shire. Part vi. W. Pengelly, F. R.S., F.G.S.

W. HARPLEY, M.A., F.C.P.S., Clayhanger, Tiverton.