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be profitably conducted, and a number of topics 

 for literary and scientific discussion were sugf- 

 gested. Of these hints and suggestions, the 

 Members of ibis Institution would do well to 

 avail themselves. 



The amazing number of 660 Visitors, entered 

 since last anniversary, attests the pleasing fact, 

 that the Whitby Museum has lost nothing of its 

 interest in the eyes of strangers, who view with 

 delight those fine specimens of Organic Remains, 

 which so particularly distinguish this Institution 

 from all others. Your Council would respect- 

 fully urge, the propriety of purchasing chiefly 

 any new fossil specimens which may be found 

 on the immediate coast and neighbourhood, as 

 they consider those the most valuable and inter-, 

 esting parts of the collection. 



From the extent of our collection in the vari- 

 ous departments of science, still rapidly increas- 

 ing, the Society, at a Meeting held in February, 

 deemed it necessary to appoint two Curators in 

 the room of the late Mr. Bird; and Mr. T, Par- 

 kin, and Mr. J^ Mewburn, were unanimously 

 appointed to fill this very important office. 



Upon the general advantages and benefits of 

 the Museum, it will be almost unnecessary for 

 your Council to dilate ; they must be obvious to 

 every thinking mind.— The Philosopher, the 

 Artist, and the Mechanic, will here find abun- 

 dant means to gratify their taste and improve 



