of knowledge it is gratifying to find that the Institution has 

 been instrumental in rescuing this elegant monument of 

 former years from total decay. Thus is preserved to the 

 City one of the few remaining evidences of its antiquity— - 

 and to the historian and antiquary an object worthy of their 

 study and admiration. 



The Committee are gratified in announcing that the Right 

 Honorable Viscount Fordwich, M, P., the Honorable Richard 

 Watson, M. P., and William Henry Baldock, Esq. have been 

 pleased to forward donations to the funds, and to place their 

 names amongst those of the other Patrons of the Institution. 

 Also that since the last Annual General Meeting a large ac- 

 cession of new Members has been obtained. 



The Committee in surrendering the authority delegated to 

 them, express their hope that their exertions during 

 the past year have been satisfactory. The year has been one 

 in which the establishment has received encouragement and 

 support of a most flattering nature. The exertions made in 

 its behalf— the advantages to be derived from it — and the 

 basis of public utility on which it is founded, begin now to be 

 more fully appreciated. Its local position, however, should 

 not be the only incentive to its support : it should be regarded 

 in connection with other similar Institutions, whose influence 

 will extend not only through this, but through other 

 countries, and whose object and tendency is, by the cultiva- 

 tion and dissemination of useful knowledge, to raise mankind 

 in the scale of moral, intellectual, and social worth. 



