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It is pleasing to observe, that Gentlemen con- 

 nected with this Society, do not forget its in- 

 terests when they are removed to a distance. 

 With regard to this Box of Minerals, it may 

 be proper to remark, that it came to us bur- 

 dened with some vexatious charges, occasioned 

 by its detention for nine months, or upwards, 

 at the King's Warehouses in London, although 

 it was in every respect properly addressed. 

 This is not the only instance in which the 

 Society has suffered in a similar way. Per- 

 haps, for the sake of other societies as well 

 as our own, it may be necessary to take some 

 further notice of the matter. It is to little pur- 

 pose that our Government, for the encourage- 

 ment of science, have taken off the duty once 

 chargeable on Foreign specimens in Natural 

 History, if, by such detentions, charges to an 

 equal or greater amount may be imposed on 

 Literary Institutions. 



Captain Smalpage has presented some 

 valuable East India Coins, with some other 

 Curiosities from India. 



Mr. J. W. Robinson, of London, who has 

 laid the Society under so many obligations, 

 has presented the first eight Numbers of the 

 Philomathic Journal. 



The Rev. J. Arundel, formerly of Whitby, 



