TWENTY-FIFTH REPORT. 



/;^/<I\HE Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society 

 iv^-~Y i^yh now existed a quarter of a century, and it 

 (f X ^^^ gi'atifying to look back on what it has done 

 rYrTXf^j during that period for the advancement of 

 ^^Sj science, the improvement and happiness of 

 its members, and the credit of the town and neigh- 

 bourhood. 



For some years past much less has been done in the 

 way of reading Lectures or Essays, than in the earlier 

 stages of the Society's progress : and throughout the 

 past year neither Lectures nor Essays in immediate 

 connexion with the Society have been delivered, except 

 the excellent Essay on the Physiology of the Nervous 

 System communicated this morning by Mr. Robert 

 Ripley : but several Lectures, Essays, and Discussions 

 have been enjoyed by the members of the Whitby 

 Institute; and it is pleasing to observe that this Inpt^^'- 

 tion, formed under the auspices of our Society, continues 

 to enjoy a high degree of prosperity: th^ nuiilerous^ 

 attendants at its Soiree in the middle of last m.onth, 

 the interest in the Report then read, and the eloquent 



