It IS highly gratifying to the Committee to be 

 enabled to state, that the Right Hon. the Eail 

 of Guilford has been pleased to patronise the 

 Institution ; and that the Countess of Guilford 

 has also been pleased to allow her name to be in- 

 serted as an annual subscriber ; since it is an in- 

 fallible mark of the Institution having met with 

 their approval ; and the honor which they have 

 conferred can but be appreciated by its friends. 



The Committee in conclusion beg to offer their 

 congratulations on the present establishment of 

 the Institution in public estimation. This has 

 been eviticed by the numerous attendance at the 

 Lectures— of Visitors to the Museum — and by 

 the addition of several subscribers of distinction. 

 They also feel that the period of doubt and dif- 

 ficulty is passed— that the Institution has arrived 

 at a degree of stability and usefulness equalling 

 the anticipation of its friends ; — and that it re- 

 quires but a continuance in the same course of 

 undeviaiing attention, and unremitted exertion 

 in Its Members, fully to attain the objects of its 

 formation, and render it not only a source of in- 

 struction, pleasure, and advantage to those who 

 are within its inuuediale sphere, but also a cre- 

 dit to its Members, and the County generally. 



