President, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., F.A.S; and 

 a selection of Fossil Plants from \V. Beane, Esq., of 

 Scarborough, one of our honorary members. 



The Council keep in view the reduction of the 

 building debt, and trust they will shortly be able still 

 further to lessen the amount which remains. 



During the last year, death has removed another 

 of our friends, or rather, we may say, of our Founders, 

 whose exertions in the establishment of this Society, 

 are by many of us remembered. We allude to the 

 late John Mewburn, Esq., M.D., of Stamford, Nia- 

 gara, Upper Canada, whose name stands associated 

 with the efforts of Young, Ripley, Bird, and others 

 of its early members, in giving the Society a position 

 among our local institutions, and in ably defining 

 and carrying out the objects of its formation. To 

 the solid basis laid in their day, without disparaging 

 the subsequent augmentations of their successors,the 

 Museum is indebted for what constitutes the most 

 valuable portion of its attractions, — namely, a choice 

 selection of the fossils for which the neighbourhood 

 of Whitby is so renowned, and which, under the care 



