O REPORT OF 



science combined, will never want an adequate audience 

 in this city. 



There has been no measure yet adopted in the administra- 

 tion of the Society's affairs, which is of greater consequence 

 to the scientific character of the Institution, than the appoint- 

 ment of a Keeper OF THE Museum. In this capacity Mr. 

 Phillips has undertaken to give his attendance at the Society's 

 rooms, during nine months of the year, for three days in 

 each* week,* and, conjointly with the Curators, to take 

 charge of the various departments of the Museum. All the 

 sources of information which it is the object of a scientific 

 Institution to supply, will thus be regularly open at fixed 

 and stated times ; and a person will always be at hand pecu- 

 liarly qualified, by the variety and accuracy of his know- 

 ledge, to satisfy enquiry. When the Society's Museum, 

 which was resorted to, in the course of the last year, by 

 several eminent foreigners, was visited by M. Adolphe 

 Brongniart, Mr. Phillips was present, and showed him the 

 peculiar vegetable impressions which occur in the neighbour- 

 hood of Whitby. M. Brongniart immediately recognized 

 them as belonging to the middle series of his three great 

 geological divisions of fossil plants ; and was much gratified 

 by the confirmation they afforded of his views respecting a 

 district in Scania, where he had observed the same genera 

 and species, and had inferred that the strata containing them 

 belong to the oolitic formations. Among these impressions 

 from Whitby, were some ill-defined specimens, in which 

 M. Brongniart thought he could discover the seeds of a 

 monocotyledonous plant. Mr. Phillips has since searched 



• Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from Ten o'Clock a. m. to Four p. m. 



