

The Council of the Whitby Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, in meeting- the Members 

 of the Institution for the seventh time, have to 

 record, with deep regret, the decease of one of 

 the most distinguished of their body — the late 

 Mr. Bird, the Curator; whose talents as an 

 artist, and scientific knowledge of Geology and 

 Mineralogy, were of a very superior order, and 

 to whose suggestions and liberality this Society 

 is partly indebted for its formation. The Coun- 

 cil, considering it their duty to pay the greatest 

 honour in their power to his memory, have pur- 

 chased an excellent likeness, painted by Dodd, 

 -which when framed, will be placed in the room, 

 as a token of the high respect and veneration 

 they entertain for his character. 



While thus expressing their sorrow for de- 

 parted genius, on the one hand, they, on the 

 other, have much gratification in announcing, 

 that the interest excited on behalf of the Muse- 

 um, in all classes of travellers, belonging to the 

 town and port of Whitby, continues to increase. 

 Few sailors and maritime gentlemen return from 



