purpose. It affords, therefore, your Council great 

 pleasure to state that during Mr. Stephenson's visit to 

 Whitby, subsequent to the last Annual Meeting, he 

 assumed the duties of President of the Institution; 

 and they cannot but express their conviction that the 

 Society's intimate connection with a gentleman of 

 such eminence and great scientific attainments, will 

 not fail to raise it in public estimation, and materially 

 to promote the objects it has in view. 



Your Council have much pleasure in stating that 

 the Bath Company at a general Meeting, held 

 expressly for the purpose, unanimously agreed to 

 accept £950 for the purchase of their building, as 

 expressed in the following resolution: — "It was 

 unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr. George 

 Vasey, seconded by Thomas Richardson, Esq., that 

 John Chapman, Esq., as Chairman of the Whitby 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, having offered 

 the sum of £950 for the purchase of the Whitby Pub- 

 lic Baths and premises, with the fixtures, furniture 

 and appurtenances thereunto belonging, the same be 

 accepted on the understanding that the Subscription 

 Library should not be disturbed; and that the pur- 

 chase be completed on or before the 22nd day of 

 April, 1856." 



Signed, " John Wilson, 

 Chairman of the Meeting." 



The attraction of the Museum to strangers, and 



