Committee regret to say that the receipts have been barely 

 sufficient to pay the annuity — the interest of the bond debt — 

 and the current expences, which have been considerably 

 reduced. Many bills are outstanding, which it is desirable 

 should be discharged. 



Several valuable additions have been made to the Li- 

 brary, as will appear by the Librarian's report. Amongst 

 these, the Committee can but call particular attention to 

 a work by one of the Honorary Members of the Insti- 

 tution, Gideon Mautell, esq. F. R. S., illustrative of the 

 Geology of Sussex, with figures and descriptions of the 

 fossils of Tilgate Forest, which is particularly valuable to 

 the Society, by its judiciously improved nomenclature of 

 tlie Secondary Class, and which has placed its author 

 high in the scale of scientific knowledge in his own 

 country, as well as on the Continent. — Also to a work ou 

 the Celtic Druids, presented by Godfrey Higgins, esq., 

 F.S.A., the author ; being a most erudite and valuable 

 production, full of interesting historical, and philological 

 facts and inquiries. — Also to a Memoir of the Universal 

 Portable Eudiometer, dedicated by its author, Wm. Henry 

 Weekes, esq., a most active and zealous Member, to the 

 Members of the Institution ; containing a description of 

 that instrument, which has been found eminently advan- 

 tao^eous in the department of Pneumatic Chemistry. This 

 philosophical apparatus is the invention of Mr. Weekes, 

 and within the walls of this Lecture-room it was first 

 submitted to public opinion. — And also to a scarce work 

 presented by Sir Egerton Brydges, bart , being Memoires 

 pour la vie de Fran^'ois Petrarque. — A few volumes have 

 been added by purchase, at a reasonable price ; but the 

 limited means of the Committee have prevented the im- 

 provement in this department which it would be most 

 advantageous to accomplish. 



