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The Council of the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, in presenting their thirty-first Report, 

 have still to speak of the prosperity of the Institution, 

 at least as far as relates to the Museum, which has 

 been inspected during the past year by upwards of 

 360 visitors, and has received some valuable additions. 



Thomas Fishburn, Esq., has presented a splendid 

 specimen of the tusk of the Narwhal, or Sea-unicorn. 



Mrs. George Clark has contributed a fine collection 

 of Zoophytes, from the Whitby coast ; and eight 

 shells, five of them of species not before in the Museum. 



To Miss Ripley we are indebted for a beautiful 

 collection of more than fifty dried plants, from New 

 Zealand ; and to James Yates, Esq., for a Fern, (Pol- 

 ypodium Billardieri,) from the same locality. 



Messrs. Rene le Franc and Marie Pierre have sent 

 the head of a large sea-wolf, and the head of a shark, 

 both taken near Iceland. 



