THIRTEENTH REPORT 



Of THE 



In conformity with an existing regulation of 

 the Society, and the practice of their predecessors, 

 the Council of the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society now proceed, in discharge of 

 their duty, to present to the Members, a brief 

 Report of the circumstances and transactions of 

 the Society during the last year. 



Although your Council have nothing particu- 

 larly interesting to communicate on the present 

 occasion, they are disposed to consider the 

 custom of presenting annual Reports, and theif 

 subsequent publication and distribution, well 

 calculated to produce beneficial results ; for it 

 enables the Members to discover at once, both 

 the strength and the weakness of their Institution^ 

 and at the same time affords to the Council a 

 suitable opportunity, for recommending the ad- 

 option of such measures, as they believe to be 

 best calculated, not only to promote its present 

 usefulness, but also to secure its permanent 

 prosperity. 



