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The establishment of a scientific Society for cultivating and diffusing a knowledge of Mineralogy and Geology, in a district so inexhaustibly rich in all the varied treasures of the mineral kingdom, and so singularly adapted, both from its natural structure and artificial excavations, for the examination of subterranean phenomena, must be hailed as an event of high importance, as well to the progress of geological knowledge, as to the advancement of the mining resources of the County of Cornwall , for the benefits which such an Institution is capable of imparting to our local interests, by defining and multiplying the objects of economical industry, are not less numerous and substantial than those which it will necessarily confer upon Science, by collecting, arranging, and generalising instructive facts...... extract from the preface to the first volume of the transactions of the Society published in 1818