15 REPORT OF 



detail the principles of construction with reference to which 

 the organs of animal sense and motion have been contrived, 

 and to describe the mechanical and physical methods em- 

 ployed by the wisdom of the Creator, in producing the 

 multiplied varieties of movement in the limbs, and the 

 delicate adjustments of vision in the eye. * 



The Council consider it as the most gratifying commu- 

 nication which they have to make to the Meeting, that the 

 time is arrived, at which they can properly propose an 

 advance of salary to this able and devoted Officer of the 

 Society, which is due not only to the merits of the indivi- 

 dual, but to the interests of the Institution. Such has now 

 become the prosperous state of the annual income, that after 

 the salary of the Keeper of the Museum shall have been 

 advanced, and all the necessary expenses of the establishment 

 defrayed, enough will remain to meet the interest of the debt 

 under which the Society still labours, and to afford means 

 for paying off the principal by slow degrees. 



The appeal which was made in the last Report to the 

 liberality of the public, produced additional donations to the 

 amount of 660/. Of this sum, about 460/. has been applied 

 to defray the expenses incurred since that Report, in the trans- 

 fer of the Society's collections and the occupation of the new 

 Museum, including some charges connected with the Garden. 

 The remainder, together with the surplus of the year's income. 



« In consequence of other engagements, Mr. Phillips has since determined to 

 withdraw these lectures for the present, and to substitute a course on Geoloct, 

 which will be delivered in March. 



