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Insects, and will doubtless be well disposed to enrich the 
repository which first gave them a taste for the pursuit. 
Anxious for the promotion of these studies, the Council 
have engaged Mr. Phillips to deliver a course of lectures on 
a part of natural history, which is less generally known than 
the rest, but not less wonderful and instructive. An account 
of the Invertebral Animals, illustrated by original drawings, 
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and collected in great measure from personal observation, 
cannot fail to interest those who delight in contemplating the 
varied forms and admirable contrivances of creation. In the 
intervals, or at the conclusion, of this course, two lectures on 
Electro-Magnetism will be given by one of the honorary 
members of the Society , 1 whose name alone would be 
sufficient to attract an audience, if the subject, on which Mr. 
Scoresby has offered to lecture, were not itself, from the new 
and important field of investigation which it opens, the most 
inviting, at the present moment, of any in the whole range of 
experimental philosophy. 
Whilst the Museum has been enriched with specimens, the 
Library has received a more than ordinary number of 
volumes, many of which will be of great utility as books of 
reference. Among these, the Lexicon of Rasche is a very 
valuable present to the antiquarian student; but still more 
valuable is the offer which has been made by the donor of 
the work and Curator of this department, to give his 
1 The Rev* W. Scoresby, F.R.S, L, & E. 
