sacrifice required. When these specimens are duly 

 arranged in our Museum, it will present a superh set of 

 Saurian animals, such as perhaps no other Museum 

 can boast. We shall thus follow out the counsels that 

 were given by not a few of our Literary Visitors. — That 

 as our neighbourhood presents a richer variety of fossils 

 than perhaps any other part of the world, we should 

 make it our grand study to render our Museum richer 

 in such fossils than any other. 



The attainment of such an object is not only con- 

 nected with the honour of our Society and the interest 

 of Science, but with the prosperity of Whitby. Many 

 strangers have been brought here by the attractions of 

 our Museum, and when it is elevated to its high rank 

 now in prospect, as possessing one of the finest sets of 

 fossil organic remains of Saurian animals in the world, 

 its attractions will be doubly powerful, and the advan- 

 tages resulting to the Town and neighbourhood pro- 

 portionally great. 



Mr. M. Simpson has continued his labours in arrang- 

 ing and marking our collection of recent Shells. The 

 Council hope, in course of time, to be able to publish 

 a Synopsis of the contents of the Museum; but this 

 would necessarily be attended with expense, which at 

 present they are unable to meet, and they would there- 

 fore hope for an increase of subscribers, to enable them 

 speedily to accomplish this desirable object. 



