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and Fear,” by Mr. W. Robson ; “ On the Organ of Music,” by Mr. John Hy¬ 
lands, Jun.; and “ On the Anatomy of the Brain'' (illustrated with dissections), 
by Mr. Grierson, surgeon. 
The annual meeting was held Oct. 5, when the following gentlemen were 
elected officers of the Society. President —Mr. W. M. Grierson, F.R.C.S.E. . 
Vice-President —Rev. J. Molyneux; Treasurer —Mr. R. Gaskell ; Correspond¬ 
ing Secretary —Mr. William Robson ; Secretary —Mr. T. Glazebrook Rylands; 
Honorary Curator —Mr. J. P. Lane, surgeon; Hon. Librarian — Mr. Peter 
Rylands ; Council — John Davies, M.D., Mr. G. W. Hardy, surgeon, Rev. C. T. 
Sevier, and the Officers. 
The number of busts, skulls, &c., in the museum is about 130. 
A few months since, a Deputation from the Society was sent to Liverpool to 
take a cast of William Hill, who was executed for murder at that town. A 
Sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Lane, P. Rylands, and W. Robson, has 
been appointed to draw up an account of Hill’s character, &c., which, together 
with a copy of the bust, will be sent to the Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester 
Phrenological Societies, and to LIewett C. Watson, Esq. 
The progress of the Society fully equals the anticipation of its founders. 
SWANSEA LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. 
We are extremely glad to find that the third annual report, for 1837-3, repre¬ 
sents this Institution in a very flourishing and satisfactory state. It consists of 
about 200 annual subscribers of one guinea each, who have an equal interest in 
the funds and property of the Society. It ranks among its members—as every 
similar Institution ought to do—the principal families and nobility in the neigh¬ 
bourhood, notwithstanding which there is an entire absence of all aristocratic 
feeling. The rooms are open every day, Sundays excepted, from eleven o’clock 
in the morning to three in the afternoon, and from seven to nine in the evening. 
Each subscriber has the power of introducing all the females and minors of his 
own family, and has also the privilege of admitting strangers on entering their 
names with his own in a book kept for that purpose; but no person is to be 
considered a stranger who has resided in the town for more than three months, or 
who resides within twenty miles of it. Any inhabitant of the town may be 
introduced once a year by a subscriber. 
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., is Patron. L. W. Dillwyn, Esq., 
M.P., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. &c., is President; and the following are Vice- 
Presidents :—The Mayor of Swansea; Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Sir P. 
Hussey Vivian, Bart., K.C.B.; J. H. Vivian, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S.; 
C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.; Sir John Morris, Bart.; J. Dillwyn 
Llewellyn, Esq., F.L.S.; Rev. William Hewson, D.D. The following gen- 
