but the institute survived and made important contributions to the Metallurgical Research Scheme administered by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (IMM) to further the war effort. A Cornish Tin and Tungsten Research Committee was formed on which a number of the Institute members sat. The 1914 – 1918 War was followed by a serious depression and the Institute played a supportive role, making generous donations to the Mining Division Unemployment Fund. During this period, a number of tragic events occurred, including the Levant Mine disaster when contributions were made to the Relief Fund. Later, in the 1920s the Institute played a very active role in resuscitating the mining industry in the Camborne – Redruth area. It had been the intention for many years to rename the institute the Cornish Institute of Engineers so as to encompass all engineering disciplines and this was finally achieved in 1923. In that year, it organised unaided, the Cornish section of the International Exhibition in London. More recently, during the Second War, the Cornish Institute of Engineers was again consulted and assisted Government in its plans for maintaining stocks of strategic minerals. In the post war years the institute was very active in organising symposiums and publishing transactions. These have included for example "Celtic offshore oil and gas exploration symposium and exhibition" in 1973. Another, in 1975, was the Mining and Quarrying Symposium. The institute has collaborated with the University of Exeter Press in publication of the late J.H. Trounson's book 'Cornwall's Future Mines: areas of Cornwall of mineral potential''. The CIE has close ties with the Camborne School of Mines (CSM), for since its early years CIE has always been welcomed to use its facilities for meetings. The Camborne School of Mines site at Trevenson, Pool closed in 2004. Much of CSM has continued with teaching and research at the Combined Universities in Cornwall campus at Tremough near Penryn. Here CSM forms part of the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Exeter. The CIE is currently reviving the close association with CSM, and we retain a healthy level of interest and participation from CSM staff and students. The CIE now holds some of its lectures in the Opie building of Cornwall College at Pool, only a short distance away from the former CSM site, for which we express our gratitude to the Principal. Other lectures, generally those with