REPORT. 



It is now forty-two years since the Whitby Literary 

 and Philosophical Society was established, and upon 

 last year's affairs and proceedings, we find nothing 

 unfavourable to prosperity and progression. To the 

 Museum collection, additions have been made chiefly 

 by gift, with a few specimens obtained by purchase 

 in the Ornithological department; and the finances 

 of the Society are calculated, in those respects, to 

 mark its stability. 



Since the publication of the last Report, Eugene F. 

 Noel, Esq., of London, has become a life governor 

 of the Institution ; whilst among the Donations, in 

 addition to its local interest, we find the valuable 

 gift of the six-inch Ordnance Map of Yorkshire, in 

 its serial sheets, presented, with other things, by our 



