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of this measure, which at once adds to the pro- 

 perty of the Society, and to the utility of its 

 Museum, and which was, in the present instance, 

 plainly pointed out by the necessities of the case. 

 The scientific arrangement of the Museum is now 

 drawing towards its completion. The Society's 

 Collection in Mineralogy and the Crustacea, have 

 already been favourably noticed on former occa- 

 sions ; and it gives the present Council pleasure 

 to be able to add to these, the departments of 

 Ornithology and Entomology, in both of which 

 the Museum can now boast of a very respectable 

 number of Specimens, and to report that their 

 preparation and arrangement does great credit to 

 the science, the assiduity, and the taste of the 

 Sub-Curator, Mr. H. Denny. 



Two Courses of Lectures have been delivered 

 before the Society, during the Session : the one 

 on Chemistry and Electricity, by Mr. Murray, an 

 individual who has distinguished himself both as 

 a scientific author and lecturer ; the other by the 

 Society's Honorary Member, Mr. Phillips, of York, 

 whose high scientific attainments are now so fully 

 appreciated throughout the Republic of Letters, 

 as to require no eulogy on the present occasion. 

 The Council add, with great regret, that though 

 neither the one nor the other of these Courses 

 was adopted without mature deliberation on their 



