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limited a scale it may be conducted, to require a considerable 

 expenditure. On the other hand, there is no probability of 

 such an accession of Members as will supply an income, on 

 the present terms of the Subscription, adequate to these 

 demands ; and the necessary conclusion is, that if the Institu- 

 tion is to be supported, the Annual Subscriptions must be 

 raised. Upon whatever principle that support has been 

 hitherto given, upon the same it ought now to be increased. 

 The new garden and the extended buildings offer additional 

 advantages of every kind, the value of which it cannot be 

 doubted that the Members of the Society will duly appreciate, 

 and to the maintenance of which, it may be presumed, they will 

 readily contribute. As, however, to propositions for making 

 changes of this description, the utmost publicity should be 

 given, the Council have not thought it proper to submit any 

 measure to the Society, till after they have made known their 

 views ; but it is probable, that in the course of the summer, 

 a Special Meeting of all the Subscribing Members will be 

 summoned, to take the subject into consideration. 



Among the advantages which the Society will derive from 

 its future accommodations, a convenient Lecture-Room is not 

 one of the least. It appears from the Treasurer's account, 

 that the receipts and expenses were nearly balanced upon 

 the two courses of Lectures delivered in 1827, on the Natural 

 History of the In vertebral Animals," and on the Magnetical 

 Phenomena of the Galvanic circuit and of Percussion :^ and 

 yet the services of the Lecturer who undertook the latter of 

 these subjects were gratuitous ; and both the courses were in 



By the Keeper of the Museum. ' By the Rct. W. Scoresby, F.R.S. 



