A Memorial Medal of the late Lord George Bentnick, 

 by Thomas Chapman, Esq., F. R. S. 



With the exception of the address read by Dr. 

 ^ Merryweather, on the occasion already referred to, and 

 a Paper by the same gentleman on the result of his 

 Meteorological observations during the last winter, no 

 essays have been read, or lectures delivered, during the 

 past year, a circumstance which your council have con- 

 tinued reason to regret. 



Your council cannot close their report without notic- 

 ing the continued valuable services rendered gi'atui- 

 tously to the society by Mr. Simpson, in arranging and 

 marking the contents of your museum ; his labours in 

 this work are most efficient, and merit the warmest 

 thanks of the society. Mr. Simpson is also engaged in 

 continuing the manuscript synopsis of your valuable 

 collection of Fossils and other curiosities, commenced 

 by the late Dr. Young, which (Cannot fail to prove of 

 great use and importance to the society. 



In conclusion, your council would express a hope, 

 that the members of the society, as well as others who 

 take an interest in the development and progress of 

 the march of intelligence, so peculiarly characteristic of 

 the present age, will combine in increased efforts for 

 the advancement of the objects of the society, and thus 

 render it, what it was intended to be by its original 

 founders, emphatically "a society for the promotion of 

 the general interests of learning and philosophy, and 

 the honor and advantage of your town, as being a 

 place where literature and science are esteemed and 

 patronized." 



Whitby, October 21th, 1854. 



