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REPORT OF 
detail the principles of construction with reference to which 
the organs of animal sense and motion have been contrived 5 
and to describe the mechanical and physical methods em^ 
ployed by the wisdom of the Creator, in producing the 
multiplied varieties of movement in the limbs, and the 
delicate adjustments of vision in the eye. ^ 
The Council consider it as the most gratifying commu¬ 
nication which they have to make to the Meeting, that the 
time is arrived, at which they can properly propose an 
advance of salary to this able and devoted Officer of the 
Society, which is due not only to the merits of the indivi¬ 
dual, but to the interests of the Institution. Such has now 
become the prosperous state of the annual income, that after 
the salary of the Keeper of the Museum shall have been 
advanced, and all the necessary expenses of the establishment 
defrayed, enough will remain to meet the interest of the debt 
under which the Society still labours, and to afford means 
for paying off the principal by slow degrees. 
The appeal which was made in the last Report to the 
liberality of the public, produced additional donations to the 
amount of 660/. Of this sum, about 460/. has been applied 
to defray the expenses incurred since that Report, in the trans- 
fer of the Society’s collections and the occupation of the new 
Museum, including some charges connected with the Garden. 
The remainder, together with the surplus of the year’s income^ 
1 In consequence of other engagements, Mr. PhiUips has since determined to 
withdraw these lectures for the present, and to substitute a course on Geology, 
??hich will be delivered in March. 
