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view, the Council would be glad to see the Museum become 

 the depository of similar articles from other distant lands. 



The Library continues to receive the Reports of 

 various Metropolitan and Provincial Societies, as well as 

 those of our Transatlantic brethren ; and the Council are 

 proud to acknowledge the receipt of a Copy of the 

 Magnetical and Meteorological Observations at Toronto 

 in Canada, presented by order of the British Government. 

 The gift of our townsman, Mr. X. W. Leather, Civil- 

 Engineer, of Three elegant Views of Bridges erected by 

 himself in Leeds and its Neighbourhood, framed and 

 glazed, as also his Report on the Sewerage of Leeds, &c. 

 deserves the special thanks of the Society ; and it would 

 afford the Council much satisfaction to have to report a 

 more rapid extension of this particular department, from 

 Donations of Books, &cc. as also to see its usefulness more 

 extended and appreciated. 



In drawing a slight summary of the principal Dona- 

 tions made to the Museum during the past year, the 

 Council enter upon this part of their duty with double 

 pleasure, not only in acknowledgment of the public spirit 

 of the Members in thus enriching the Collection with 

 Specimens of great interest, which could not be otherwise 

 obtained, but as a proof of the desire evinced, on their 

 part also, to provide for the growing taste, and eager thirst 

 of the population for the acquisition of knowledge, — a 

 knowledge too, it must be allowed, however slight it may 

 be, of the most sublime and ennobling description. For 



