when viewed in connexion with other kindred 

 Institutions. The Whitby Institute, the formation 

 of which, under the auspices of this Society, was 

 announced in last Report, is in a very prosperous 

 state ; realizing the expectations of its founders, 

 and promising to be of great utility for the people 

 of Whitby. Its members have increased, its finances 

 are in a healthy state, and its advantages are 

 extensively enjoyed and improved, by those for 

 whose benefit it is specially designed. The only 

 Lectures given in connexion with this Society, 

 during the year, have been delivered chiefly to the 

 Members of the Institute. Of these, the Lectures 

 of Dr. Scoresby are particularly worthy of notice. 

 It is hoped that, in the course of another year, 

 much more may be done in this department. 



The Meeting of the Archaeological Institute at 

 York, in the month of July, has supplied another 

 illustration of the usefulness of our Society. Several 

 interesting specimens of antiquities were sent from 

 our collection, and exhibited in the temporary 

 Museum of the Institute, to crowds of visitors. Your 

 Society was represented at that Meeting, by the 

 President, and the senior Secretary, both of whom 

 read Papers on the antiquities of this district, which 

 excited no sm^ll interest among the lovers of science 

 assembled on that occasion. Your President has 

 communicated to the present Meeting an abstract 

 of the Paper which he read to the Institute at York, 



