FOURTH REPORT. 



THE Whitby Literary and Philosophical 

 Society are now met to hold their Fourth Anni- 

 versary; and it is a subject of pleasing congra- 

 tulation, not only to the Council, but to all the 

 Society, that we are assembled in a building so 

 commodious and respectable, and so well fitted 

 up for receiving and displaying those rich col- 

 lections which the Society has accumulated. 

 The removal of these collections to this desirable 

 situation, where they are arranged in a new form, 

 and placed in a more advantageous light, is the 

 principal matter to be reported by your Council, 

 having occupied their chief care during the last 

 half-year. 



This grand measure has somewhat interrupted 

 the usefulness of the Institution; for, during its 

 progress, throughout the space of more than 

 three months, the Museum was unavoidably shut 

 up, not only from strangers, but in a great 



