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wise been employed in arranging our collection of 

 Insects; and these also begin to assume a greatly 

 improved appearance. 



Your Council have peculiar pleasure in pointing to 

 the formation of the "Whitby Institute of popular 

 Arts, Science, and Literature," as a work accomplished 

 under the auspices of this Society, and chiefly by 

 Members of your Council. To the Kev. D. Davis, 

 B. A., who, we regret to say, has since left the town, 

 is mainly to be attributed the success of the under- 

 taking. The formation of this Institution supplies 

 what has long been a desideratum in Whitby : for 

 although we have a public Library, unequalled in 

 Yorkshire, for the size of the place, it was necessary 

 to provide for the working classes and apprentices, 

 opportunities for reading and mental improvement, 

 on easier terms, and in a way more adapted to their 

 peculiar circumstances. Your Council have pledged 

 themselves to assist the Directors of the Institute in 

 every possible way, in carrying out their praiseworthy 

 designs; — a pledge which, it is hoped, succeeding 

 Members of Council will ratify and act upon. Gra- 

 tuitous admission to the Museum may be given to the 

 Members of the Institute, on stated occasions here- 

 after to be determined : and in procuring Lectures, — 

 a department which we have this year strangely neg- 

 lected, — a union of the Institutions may be attended 

 with mutual advantage. The rivalry of two kindred 

 Societies, existing in the same locality, instead of 

 exciting hostile feelings, will rather, under proper 



