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npHE Council of the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 -*- sophical Society, in presenting their thirtieth 

 Report, have to inform the Members, in the first 

 place, that a communication has been received from 

 the Society of Arts in London, proposing to take 

 into connexion with it as many scientific institutions 

 throughout the kingdom as are disposed to imite, 

 and promising each Society, in return for the pay- 

 ment of two guineas annually, ^^ valuable assistance 

 in the improvement of libraries, — ^in the arrangement 

 of classes, — in the delivery of lectures on literary, 

 scientific, and practical subjects, — in the formation 

 of museums, — in collecting and preparing local exhi- 

 bitions of different kinds, &c." This proposal your 

 Council would have been inclined to accept, and the 

 rather as it was distinctly stated, '^that in thus 

 entering into union with the Society of Arts, each 

 Institution should, in all things, preserve the inde- 



