It is with feelings of deep and sincere regret 

 that your Council have to record the irreparable 

 loss which the Society has sustained by the death 

 of one of the most distinguished of their body, 

 the Reverend George Young, D. D., one of the 

 founders of the Society, one of the Secretaries, 

 and for upwards of a quarter of a century, one 

 of the most active and liberal supporters of the 

 Institution. He was a pious, learned, intelligent, 

 and instructive Lecturer on popular, scientific^ 

 and antiquarian subjects; and it was mainly 

 owing to his fostering care and direction that 

 your Museum has obtained so distinguished a 

 reputation as a rich depository of the beautiful 

 and gigantic fossil organic remains of a former 

 world, for which the lias formation of the vicinity 

 of Whitby has long been celebrated ; and which, 

 but for the establishment of such a local deposi- 

 tory, might still have remained entombed in the 

 roclcs, or been manufactured into Roman Cement ; 

 or perhaps been used for repairing the highways 

 of the neighbourhood. It will be gratifying to the 

 Members of the Society to learn that a talented 

 native Artist, Mr. George Croft, anxious to testify 

 his respect for the memory of the Historian of 



