Institution, the Council has much satisfaction in stating 

 that, owing to the admission of several new Members, 

 and the advantages which they confidently expect 

 will accrue from the purchase of the Museum Building, 

 there is good reason to hope that in future years the 

 pecuniary resources of the Society will be materially 

 enlarged, and its power of usefulness proportionately 

 increased. 



The Treasurer's account, which is annexed, exhibits 

 the financial position of the Society at the close of 

 the current year. 



In order to raise a Fund for the purchase and 

 alteration of the Museum Building, your Council in 

 the early part of the year made a canvass of the town 

 and neighbourhood for pecuniary aid, and their exer- 

 tions were so far successful that, including Dr. 

 Scoresby's conditionally promised donation of £ 300, 

 they realized a sum of ^ 813 12s. A list of the 

 contributors to the Fund is appended to this Report ; 

 and to testify the Society's high appreciation of the 

 liberal response to their appeal for pecuniary aid on 

 this occasion, your Council recommends that all con- 

 tributors of X 10 10s. and upwards to the Building 



