tbis year, will form a new era in the history 

 of this Society, and vvill serve, in no small 

 deg-ree, to increase its respectability, and its 

 public usefulness. At the same time, it may 

 be proper to remark, that increased exertions 

 will be necessary on the part of the Officers 

 and Members of the Society, to plan and su^ 

 perintend the fitting* up of the new apartments, 

 to arrange the Society*s valuable collections, 

 and to provide for the expenses incurred by 

 this undertaking". 



As a further step of the Society's prog-ress, 

 your Council have to state, that during the past 

 year general Meetings have begun to be held 

 for the purpose of reading Essays. Since the 

 last Anniversary, three such Meetings have 

 been held, at each of which an Essay was 

 read by one of your Secretaries, the Rev. Geo. 

 Young, A.M. At the first Meeting, which 

 was held, February 18, 18*25, he read a*' De- 

 scription of the Fossil Crocodile, which now 

 forms a most valuable part of the Society's 

 property. At the second, held May 27, he read 

 an Essay on Pyrites of comparatively recent 

 formation, discovered in blocks of wood, dug up 

 from the foundation of the buildings lately 

 erected by Messrs. Frankland & Wilkinson in 

 Church street ; and also gave an account of 

 some Inscriptions on ancient Bells at Guis^ 

 borough Church. The third Meeting was held 



