REPOET. 



In bringing forward the Forty-fifth Report of the 

 Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 the substance in point of detail will be found similar to 

 that of the two last preceeding years, viz : — a satis- 

 factory state of the finances, and certain additions to 

 the Museum Collection. These additions are chiefly 

 Donations, the Council keeping steadily in view the 

 desirability of entire freedom from debt, before any 

 material outlay can be contemplated. 



During the past year, our President, Thomas Chap- 

 man, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., has given, as usual, the 

 publications for that period, of the Archeological 

 Society, &c. R. M. Hunton, Esq., has added to the 

 fossil treasures of the Museum a large specimen of the 

 Icthyosaurus, from the Loftus Alum Works, in this 

 quarter ; and the Society, in consideration of so valu- 

 able a donation, have elected him a Governor of the 

 Institution. The Memoirs of the Geological Survey 

 of the United Kingdom, eight in number, obtained 



