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The Council of the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, in accordance with the rules of the 

 Institution, have now, in completion of the duties of 

 their Office, to submit to the Members a brief report 

 of the transactions of the Society during the thirty- 

 third year of its existence. 



The Committee have to regret that, in consequence 

 of not being able to afford proper accommodation, no 

 local talent has been made available in the production 

 of Lectures or Essays on literary or scientific subjects 

 of popular interest. This difficulty the Council hope 

 soon to have removed ; and it is gratifying to them to 

 be able to report, that the usefulness and importance 

 of the Institution are yearly becoming more appar- 

 ent, and that the Museum is an increasing ornament 

 to the Town and District, and calculated to be a 

 valuable auxiliary in scientific researches. 



In the last annual report a doubt was implied as to 

 the acceptance of the Presidency of the Society by 

 Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., who, it will be re- 

 membered, had been unanimously chosen to that 

 Office at a special general Meeting, convened for the 



