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Transcript of shorthand notes towards the back of this book. They were dictated to C. A. Chant at 33 Dorval Road by Mr. Elvins May 27, 1913.

The Astronomical Club was the first organisation of its kind in the city and these are the minutes of it.

Dictated by Mr. Elvins to L. H. Graham in 1904.

I was born at a place called Polgooth, a small village close by the Ancient tin mines of Cornwall. Polgooth is near St. Austle ["Austell" in Encyc. Brit.], a market town. The tin mines above noted are supposed to be one of the places whee the Phoenicians extracted their tin two or three thousand years ago, prior to the Christian era. Remains of burnt wood have there been found containing metallic tin of ancient date. I was born on May 4th 1823, thus am now in my 82nd year. ( 86 May 1909. )

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