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REPOP-T OF THE 
Monastic Remains of the County; but they are in expectation 
that this desirable object -^rill be accomplished in the ensuing 
autumn. The only public lectures delivered in the Museum 
since the last Report, were cn the Phenomena of Sound by 
Mr. Robert Addams. This gentleman will probably be able 
to present some popular illustrations of the Electric Tele¬ 
graph of Wheatstone, and somie other modern discoveries in 
the month of April; the Council are moreover glad to an¬ 
nounce that Professor Phillips has proposed to give four 
lectures on some of the fundamental truths of Modern 
Geology with theoretical inferences, and practical applications, 
in the month of March; and that Mr. Newman and Mr. 
Barker have expressed their willingness to oblige the Society 
by similar explanations of some points of astronomical and 
CHEMICAL science. 
On this occasion the Council announce with regret the 
f nal withdrawal from office of the present Secretaries (Prof. 
Phillips, and Mr. Henry Robinson,) who, animated by earnest 
and sustained devotion to the objects for which we are united, 
have harmoniously performed the duties intrusted to them 
through many years. The Council have unwilhngly been 
compelled to yield to the reasons which induced these gentle¬ 
men to demand a release from what must ever prove an 
anxious labour ; satisfied that this Society will always receive 
in another form the benefit of their knowledge and experience, 
and well pleased to be able to recommend for the approbation 
of the meeting, as their successor, one so well qualified as Mr. 
Thomas Meynell to conduct the scientific and ordinary busi¬ 
ness of the Institution. 
* Professor Phillips was elected in 1830, Mr, Rohinson in 1837, 
