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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 227 1913; " The Bodmin Gospels," 1913; Presidential Addresses, igi2, 1913, and 1914; and Notes on Cornish Folk Lore, 1915. To the Reports of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. — "Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Carn Brea," 1895; " Glasney and its Associations," 1898; " Cassiterides and Ictis: Where were they?" 1909. Other works : History of Cornwall for my Children, A History of Cornwall for Schools (1908), The History of Glasney Collegiate Church, Cornwall (1903), and The Cornish Drama. Mr. Peter in 1906 thoroughly revised and re-wrote Collinses History of Cornwall. His explorations of the prehistoric fortress of Carn Brea were important. He explored the hut circles and found neolithic implements, and it was the first time that any- thing really important had been done at Carn Brea. This work won for him the Henwood gold medal. Another work of great interest was that on the lost Piran Church, to the preservation of which he devoted himself. The St. Columb Green-book was a subject in which he revelled. To the Cornwall Polytechnic Society his best contribution is that in regard to Glasney, about the Collegiate Church of which he wrote a fine history. Another work of note is that on the Cornish drama. In 1914 Mr. Peter was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Mr. Peter never took any part in party politics. At one time he held a commission in the old Volunteer force, and his sense of duty impelled him to again accept a commission in the recently-formed Cornwall Volunteer Regt., which, how- ever, he had to resign on account of ill-health. He acted as joint secretary in 1892, on the occasion of the visit to Redruth of the Royal Cornwall Show, and afterwards on the formation of Redruth Exhibition Society became its first treasurer. Mr, Peter was buried in Treleigh Churchyard. We are indebted to the editor of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser for the loan of the block of the excellent portrait which illustrates this notice and for many of the details concerning Mr. Peter's most exemplary and useful life. Eds.