to mention, that the want of a suitable entrance to the 

 valuable cellars underneath the Hall, deprives the institution 

 of a considerable addition to its annual income. 



Impressed with these considerations, your Council 

 would earnestly reiterate the recommendation of their prede- 

 cessors, that you should avail yourselves of the efficient 

 means within your power, both individually and collectively, 

 to raise the necessary funds, by which every alleged imper- 

 fection may be supplied, and every inconvenience removed. 



They have, however, come to the conclusion, that these 

 valuable ends may be attained, without abandoning the 

 present Hall, and selecting another site ; and finding, also, 

 that a very strong objection exists in the minds of a large 

 proportion of the members to any change of situation, they re- 

 spectfully propose that some measures be taken, by which the 

 vacant land at the west side of the Hall may be occupied 

 with such an additional erection, as may be formed with the 

 least possible disturbance to the internal plan of the pre- 

 sent edifice, and in perfect correspondence with its external 

 architecture. 



By this step, the Society would have a lecture-room, 

 spacious and commodious, and adapted to the piu^oses of 

 philosophical experiment and illustration, either with solar 

 or artificial light ; and a Museiun, worthy of the advancing 

 prosperity of the collection, and of the patronage of its 

 friends, of whose munificence the least acknowledgment 

 you can make, is to provide their contributions with an apart- 

 ment, where they may be advantageously seen, and securely 

 preserved. 



Yoiup Council have too confident a reliance on that 

 enlightened public spirit, which has left itself so many 

 honourable memorials in the history of your Society, to feel 

 any anxiety as to the full and speedy accomplishment of 

 their wishes. 



Reverting to the usual order of Report, your Council 

 are happy to observe a very respectable augmentation in the 



