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The Council of the Whitby Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Society have now the duty of presenting to the 

 Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, a concise view of 

 the present state and prospect of the Institution. 



It has seldom happened, in a Societyjlike^'ours, 

 established chiefly for the purpose of promoting the 

 peaceful pursuits and interests of Science and Litera- 

 ture, that much has occurred in the course of a single 

 year, to call for lengthened remark. 



Mr. Martin Simpson has continued his very valu- 

 able gratuitous labours in re-arranging and labelling 

 different departments of the Museum. 



Several new Members have to be proposed for 

 admission at this Meeting; some of whom have, for 

 several vears, been liberal donors to the Museum. 



A course of Six Lectures, on " the Curiosities of 

 Natural History," by Thomas Eymer Jones, Esq., 

 F.R.S., &c.. Professor of Comparative Anatomy, in 

 King's College, London, were the only ones delivered 

 in connexion with the Society, during the past year. 

 Notwithstanding the distinguished reputation of Pro- 

 fessor Jones, as a Lecturer and Naturalist, and his 

 splendid and extensive illustrative Diagrams and Spe- 

 cimens, the latter furnished by the Society, and the 



