REPORT. 



In the Report now brought forward, we would 

 observe that the Whitby Literary and Philosophical 

 Society having been set on foot in 1822, the present 

 year 1872 is the 50th, or ''Jubilee year" of the institu- 

 tion. ^'' 



Since the last annual meeting, an improved 

 arrangement among the larger objects in the museum 

 will be perceived. 



During the past season, the collection has been 

 well visited ; and judging from the many with whom 

 we have come in contact, a greater portion than 

 usual were of that class for whose benefit the 

 advocates for the spread of intelligence, have recom- 

 mended the formation of museums and kindred 

 institutions. To the growing interest in those matters 

 among the general public in different parts of the 

 country, the press of late has frequently alluded ; the 

 pursuits of Geology with its wonderful types of former 

 life, being among the most prominent. On our liassic 

 fossils, one who seems to quote from what he has 

 read, remarks, that at Whitby, situated as it is in 

 the centre of the Yorkshire Lias, a great object with 

 the founders of its museum, has been to make it the 

 treasure of such choice specimens as that formation 

 affords. The large Saurians, he adds, are particularly 



, * The printed proposals for forming the Society and a Museum, are dated 

 November 28th, 1822. 



