REPORT. 



The period has again arrived for presenting the 

 Annual Report of the Whitby Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, this being the forty -fourth year of its 

 existence. 



The payment of the debt on the building which 

 the Society holds having been steadily kept in view, 

 it is now gratifying to annoance, that the discharge 

 of the whole* will shortly be accomplished. The 

 Society will then be at greater liberty to devote 

 more of its means for the better accommodation of 

 its collection, a step which all acknowledge to be 

 urgently needful. This last point, however, is matter 

 for future consideration. 



Several valuable donations, during the past year, 

 have been presented to the. Museum. Edmund 

 Coulson, Esq., has given a large collection of Plants 

 and Shells, made in the neighbourhood of Whitby, 

 by the late Wm. Hunter and Wm. Middleton, Esqrs., 



