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and that the same privilege shall be extended 

 to the regular Methodist Ministers, during the 

 term of their residence in Whitby. This libe- 

 ral proposal appeared to your Council so con- 

 genial to the spirit manifested by this Society, 

 that, anticipating your decision, they have 

 taken the liberty to act upon it, with regard 

 to the Gentlemen concerned, now resident in 

 Whitby. 



The reading of Essays has been more at- 

 tended to in this year than in last ; yet Meet- 

 ings for this purpose have not been held regu- 

 larly. An Essay on the Works of Samuel 

 Jones, Gent, the Poet of Whitby, by Mr. J. 

 W. Robinson, of London, was read at a public 

 Meeting, held on the 16th of March. At a 

 subsequent Meeting, held April 12, the Rev. 

 William Scoresby, F.R.S. &c., an Honorary 

 Member of the Society, gave a Lecture on 

 Atmospheric Refraction, and on some pheno- 

 mena of the Rainbow. On the 18th of July, 

 another Meeting was held, when there was 

 read an Essay on the Salmon and Salmon 

 Trout Fisheries of the Esk, by Mr. J. W. Ro- 

 binson, who was unanimously elected an 

 Honorary Member of the Society. At the 

 same Meeting, a drawing of the head and 

 horns of a Fossil Elk, found in a peat bog on 



