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Monastic Remains of the County ; but they are in expectation 

 that this desirable object will be accomplished in the ensuing 

 autumn. The only public lectures delivered in the Museum 

 since the last Report, were on the Phenomena of Sound by 

 Mr. Robert Addams. This gentleman will probably be able 

 to present some popular illustrations of the Electric Tele- 

 graph of Wheatstone, and some other modern discoveries in 

 the month of April ; the Council are moreover glad to an- 

 nounce that Professor Phillips has proposed to give four 

 lectures on some of the fundamental truths of Modern 

 Geology with theoretical inferences, and practical applications, 

 in the month of March ; and that Mr. Newman and Mr. 

 Barker have expressed their willingness to oblige the Society 

 by similar explanations of some points of astronomical and 

 chemical science. 



On this occasion the Council announce with regret the 

 final withdrawal from office of the present Secretaries (Prof. 

 Phillips, and Mr. Henry Robinson,) who, animated by earnest 

 and sustained devotion to the objects for which we are united, 

 have harmoniously performed the duties intrusted to them 

 through many years. * The Council have unwillingly been 

 compelled to yield to the reasons which induced these gentle- 

 men to demand a release from what must ever prove an 

 anxious labour ; satisfied that this Society will always receive 

 in another form the benefit of their knowledge and experience, 

 and well pleased to be able to recommend for the approbation 

 of the meeting, as their successor, one so well qualified as Mr. 

 Thomas Meynell to conduct the scientific and ordinary busi- 

 ness of the Institution. 



Professor Phillips was elected in 1830, Mr. Robinson in 1837. 



