HEPORT, 
IS 
limited a scale it may be conducted, to require a considerable 
expenditure. On the other hand, there is no probability of 
such an accession of Members as will supply an income, on 
the present terms of the Subscription, adequate to these 
demands ; and the necessary conclusion is, that if the Institu¬ 
tion is to be supported, the Annual Subscriptions must be 
raised. Upon whatever principle that support has been 
hitherto given, upon the same it ought now to be increased. 
The new garden and the extended buildings offer additional 
advantages of every kind, the value of which it cannot be 
doubted that the Members of the Society will duly appreciate, 
and to the maintenance of which, it may be presumed, they will 
readily contribute. As, however, to propositions for making 
changes of this description, the utmost publicity should be 
given, the Council have not thought it proper to submit any 
measure to the Society, till after they have made known their 
views; but it is probable, that in the course of the summer, 
a Special Meeting of all the Subscribing Members will be 
summoned, to take the subject into consideration. 
Among the advantages which the Society will derive from 
its future accommodations, a convenient Lecture-Room is not 
one of the least. It appears from the Treasurer’s account, 
that the receipts and expenses were nearly balanced upon 
the two courses of Lectures delivered in 1827, on the Natural 
History of the Invertebral Animals,^ and on the Magnetical 
Phenomena of the Galvanic circuit and of Percussion and 
yet the services of the Lecturer who undertook the latter of 
these subjects w'ere gratuitous ; and both the courses were in 
^ By the Keeper of the Museum. 
2 By the Re?, W, Scoresby, F.R.S, 
