REPORT. 
I l 
judged it useful to make purchases to the amount of about 
Forty Pounds, which, added to the Minerals presented to the 
Society by its Members, and in particular, an extensive 
donation from Mr. Hepworth, form a respectable commence¬ 
ment of a Mineralogical cabinet. 
The Committee have expended a more considerable sum in 
the purchase of Books, a large proportion of which have been 
foreign works in Natural History, imported on advantageous 
terms directly from Paris. The Library has also been in¬ 
creased by many liberal donations from Members of the 
Society; and the books are now become sufficiently numerous 
to make it proper that a list of them should be printed, and 
regulations for the use of them framed; though it cannot be 
expected that the Library of an infant Society, with such 
limited funds, should answer any extensive demand for 
circulation. 
But the most considerable article of expenditure during the 
last year, has been the fitting up of the Society’s Rooms tHtli 
1 lie necessary Furniture, and particularly with Cabinets and 
Cases. To combine security with facility of inspection, the 
Committee have thought it desirable, as far as room permits, 
to place the Minerals and Fossils under glass ; proposing 
however, that the less striking specimens of geological detail 
shall hereafter be distributed in drawers, which is the most 
economical disposition, with respect both to cost and space 
The expense of the glazed cases has raised the sum under thi§ 
head, in the Treasurer’s account, to near Two Hundred 
