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tkgo maritima, Porchester. Pulmonaria marltima, lichen Ferry, Southamp- 

 ton. — S. Palmer. Chigwell, Essex, Sept. \ 828. 



Somersetshire. 



Bristol Institution. — The fifth Annual Meeting of the Members of this 

 Institution was held on Feb. 14. 1828, Thomas Daniel, Esq., in the chair, 

 when the Annual Report was read. The Committee, in adverting to the 

 principal objects to which their attention had been directed during the past 

 year, stated that the aggregate income had been so liberal, as not only to 

 enable them to make several improvements in the lecture room and in other 

 parts of the building, but to discharge every obligation for which the Insti- 

 tution was liable. 



Courses of lectures had been delivered on phrenology; on ancient history; 

 on elocution ; on the structure and functions of the human frame, the 

 entire proceeds of which course were given to the Institution, in a spirit of 

 liberality on which the Committee are prevented from enlarging, by the 

 consideration that the lecturer, Mr. Estlin, is one of their own body ; and 

 on natural and experimental philosophy. 



To procure an improved lucernal microscope, the profits of some lectures 

 upon the structure of the eye, delivered by Mr. Estlm in 1824, were, at his 

 request, set apart. The completion of the purchase was an object of the 

 lectures on the structure and functions of the human frame, recently de- 

 livered by Mr. EstHn. The receipts from these latter lectures have not only 

 been adequate to procure the improved lucernal microscope, but have 

 yielded a surplus of 20/. 5s. , which, at that gentleman's request, is to be 

 appropriated towards the future purchase of a chronometer clock, to be 

 placed in the Institution ; an instrument which is not to be met with In any 

 of the public establishments of this city. 



During the past year, several specimens have been added to the museum. 

 The greater part of the collection of shells has been arranged in the glazed 

 drawers under the mineral cases, in such a manner as to illustrate the 

 genera as established by Lamarck. The geological collection and the ex- 

 traneous fossils have been arranged in the upright glass cases over the 

 minerals, in conformity with the views of Professor Buckland and the Rev. 

 Mr. Conybeare on that subject ; and the publication of Messrs. Conybeare 

 and Phillips has been used as a text-book. Among the donations received 

 in this department, a very fine specimen of the Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris, 

 from Lyme-Regis, deserves to be particularly noticed, which is believed to 

 be the most complete, if not the only one, ever yet discovered. In the 

 zoological and ornithological departments, a great number of specimens 

 have been received and prepared. 



With a view to the promotion of a taste for the fine arts, as well as to 

 the appropriate embellishment of the interior of the building, casts of 

 several of the finest statues which grace the halls of the Vatican and other 

 celebrated galleries have been purchased, and arrangements are in progress 

 for placing them permanently in the principal room of the Institution. In 

 the same apartment it is also intended to arrange the noble and unique col- 

 lection of casts from the iEgina marbles, so liberally presented to the 

 Institution by C. R. Cockerell, Esq., whose active research discovered, and 

 whose learning and taste have illustrated, the beautiful originals. 



A valuable addition has been made to the library of the reading room by 



his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who has presented to the Institution 



Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles, and also En- 



■ gratings of the Woburn Abbey Heaths. The value of the present is enhanced 



by the circumstance, that these works were printed for the private use of 



^ the noble donor, and have never been published. 



