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same time more general inquiries have not been neglected, and that 

 the Society's cabinets have been enriched from every quarter, par- 

 ticularly by the contributions of Mr. Marshall, Mr. Stapylton, and 

 Mr. Strickland. — The Report next announces that Mr. Phillips will 

 deliver, daring the present year, a course of lectures on the CEconomy 

 and Organization of Animals; and the Curator of Botany (the Rev. 

 Mr. Hincks)has offered to favour the Society, in the months of May and 

 June, with eight lectures on that science, the profits of which will be 

 appropriated to the garden fund. 



The accounts of the Committee are arranged under six heads r the 

 first of these includes the total expenditure of the main building 

 (6S60/). Under the second head is placed the expense of the lodge 

 and entrance gates, the boundary walls, and outbuildings. The third 

 comprises the repairs of the ruined Abbey, the excavations carried on 

 to trace the old monastic foundations, the making of the roads and 

 walks, and the formation of the garden. The furniture of the Mu- 

 seum, and the new cases prepared for the reception of specimens, 

 form the fourth head : and under the fifth and sixth are classed the 

 claims of the former occupiers, printing and other miscellaneous ex- 

 penses. The sum total of the expenditure on all these heads is nearly 

 9800/.,— a sum greater indeed than had been anticipated, but not 

 greater than was necessary to do justice to the plan of a County 

 Museum, and to fulfill the wishes of the subscribers. The sum which 

 is in hand to answer that demand, is about 8300/., thus leaving 

 a debt of 1500/.; a debt which, the Report adds, will undoubtedly 

 prove a heavy incumbrance, if means cannot be devised of paying it 

 oft'. " We may indeed go on ; but let the meeting consider in what 

 manner we shall go on as respects the character and utility of the 

 institution. We may go on, giving a salary of CO/, a year to the 

 keeper of the Museum — and would any member of the Society wish 

 to retain his services on such inadequate terms ? We may go on — 

 but with an unfurnished laboratory, and with a library to whicli the 

 naturalist and the antiquary might refer in vain. We may go on — but 

 we must leave it to others to explore, even in our own county, the 

 mysteries of Nature, and to collect the monuments of Art." 



From the Treasurer's Annual Report, which vvas laid before the 

 meeting, it appeared, that during the last year the receipts amounted 

 to 528/. 4s. ; and the expenditure to 499/. 9s. \d. ; leaving a balance 

 in the hands of the Treasurer of 28/. \4s. lid.; which, added to 73/. 

 arrears due from members, leaves 10!/. 14s. \\d. in favour of the 

 Society. 



It was then moved bv Sir George Cayley, and seconded by W. 

 Marshall, Esq. that the warmest thanks of this Society are eminently 

 due to the Rev. W. \'ernon, for his uniform zeal in the execution of 

 his arduous office as President of this Institution, but more especially 

 for his indefatigable exertions in founding and completing this 

 Museum. 

 The Resolution was carried with great applause. 

 The Tresident, in returning thanks to the Meeting, said, that the 

 Institution had risen to its present flourishing state by the combined 



exertions 



