little has been expended in purchasing specimens, 

 the additions made to your rich stores are very- 

 considerable : and the accommodations now made 

 for receiving and displaying the contents of the 

 Museum, will naturally lead to an increase of 

 donations ; for the friends of the Society will be 

 encouraged to bring their contributions more 

 freely, when they find that they will be at once 

 duly appreciated, carefully preserved, and pro- 

 perly exhibited. 



The Museum continues, and will long continue, 

 to be highly interesting and attractive. The 

 number of Visitors entered in the List for the year 

 is 427. The sum received for admissions is only 

 £6 Os. 6d.; a very large proportion of the Visitors 

 having been, as usual, introduced by Members or 

 Subscribers. We have been honoured, as in 

 former years, with the visits of several gentlemen 

 of the highest rank in literature and science. 

 The more, indeed, our collections in geology, 

 natural history, and other departments, are 

 augmented, the more they will facilitate scientific 

 pursuits ; so that, from year to year, our Museum 

 will become increasingly interesting, to every 

 student of nature. 



With a view to make the value of our Museum 

 more generally known, and render it more exten- 

 sively useful, in the town and neighbourhood, the 

 Council, after mature deliberation, have given 

 the requisite notice of an alteration of the Rules, 



