18 IlEPORT. 



Insects, and will doubtless be well disposed to enrich the 

 repository which first gave them a taste for the pursuit. 



Anxious for the promotion of these studies, the Council 

 have engaged Mr. Phillips to deliver a course of lectures on 

 a part of natural history, which is less generally known than 

 the rest, but not less wonderful and instructive. An account 

 of the Invertebral Animals, illustrated by original drawings, 

 and collected in great measure from personal observation, 

 cannot fail to interest those who delight in contemplating the 

 varied forms and admirable contrivances of creation. In the 

 intervals, or at the conclusion, of this course, two lectures on 

 Electro-Magnetism will be given by one of the honorary 

 members of the Society, '^ whose name alone would be 

 sufficient to attract an audience, if the subject, on which Mr. 

 Scoresby has offered to lecture, were not itself, from the new 

 and important field of investigation which it opens, the most 

 inviting, at the present moment, of any in the whole range of 

 experimental philosophy. 



Whilst the Museum has been enriched with specimens, the 

 Library has received a more than ordinary number of 

 volumes, many of which will be of great utility as books of 

 reference. Among these, the Lexicon of Rasche is a very 

 valuable present to the antiquarian student; but still more 

 valuable is the offer which has been made by the donor of 

 the work and Curator of this department, to give his 



> The Rev. W. Scoresby, F.R.S. L, & E. 



