TWENTY-SIXTH EEPOET. 



The Council of the Whitby Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Society, in compliance with the rules and 

 regulations of the Institution, and the practice of 

 their predecessors, have now to fulfil the final 

 duty of their office, by presenting a brief report 

 of the transactions of the Society during the 

 twenty sixth year of its existence. 



The Council have to regret that the operations 

 of the Society have been unusually limited and 

 unimportant; no Essays having been read, nor 

 Lectures given in immediate connexion with 

 the Institution, during the past year, a reproach 

 which they hope their successors may not have 

 occasion to repeat. 



The state of the finances of the Society will be 

 best understood by a reference to the Treasurer's 

 Accounts, which are annexed. The purchase of 

 the splendid and valuable specimen of Plesio- 

 saurus, from the Marquess of Normanby, last 

 year, notwithstanding the liberal subscription 

 then entered into, has increased the Society's 



