NINTH REPORT. 



I IV presenting to the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society the Ninth Annual Report, the 

 Council have only to refer to the number and 

 respectability of its Members and supporters, in 

 proof of its prosperity and utility. 



It will be remembered, that one of the principal 

 objects which the Society had in view at its com- 

 mencement, was the establishment of a Museum, 

 for the preservation and display of the various 

 beautiful, and valuable Fossil organic remains of 

 a former world, for which this coast and neighbour- 

 hood are so much celebrated ; affording at the 

 same time, a safe depository for such other objects 

 of curiosity, whether of nature or of art, as the 

 Society might be able, from time to time to pur- 

 chase, or its friends feel disposed to contribute or 

 deposit, so as to render them more generally 

 useful and instructive, than they could have been 

 in private hands. 



How far this object has been realized, the sur- 

 rounding collection of valuable articles of curiosity 

 from every quarter of the globe, and from almost 

 every nation of the earth, and every age of the 

 world, will sufficiently demonstrate ; whilst the 



