MEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 2

MEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.

o ANNUAL MEETING. .^ftei 1 Tho Post wont to prcsa yesterday, the following business was transacted at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. IIUTTON MEMORIAL. Dr. Chiltpn, reporting on Ihe Ilutlon Memorial Fund, stated that £12 9s had been received in subscriptions during the year. Tho balance in hand was £662 2s 3d, and ihe interest amounted ,to £18 Is sd. It was a question whether 'the money should not, be placed in a morb remunerative investment. , 'It was at present in the Post ,onice Savings Bank. The committee hoped to hav,o the bronze memorial medal very shoitly. Tho matter was in tho hands of Professor A. Dcndy, of King's College, London, and it was hoped that copies of it would be roccivod before long. 'Ihe committee suggested a small committee of persons living outside New Zealand who were conversant with geology, zoolopv, and botany, should be asked to make suggestions to the Board of Governors fvoip time to timo. as to the per&oii who i<i its opinion is best entitled to ivlcivj Use medal. Tho medal would bear a" portrait of tho late Captain liutton on the one side, and an emblematical design illustrating Now' Zealand zoology, geology, and botany on tho other. There' had been no applications made to tho trustees of the fund at present, clue, as '< the report stated, to* the conditions not appearing in the Institute Transactions. Tho report was adopted. Tho funds 'in the committee's hand's were transferred to the Institute. Tho rules and regulations were revised and' adopted. \ KERMADEC EXPEDITION. An application was received from Messrs. W. R, B. Oliver and T. Iredale for assistance from the Hutton Fund in connection with their expedition to the Kermadec Islands. The latter was received. Dr. Chilton 'said the applicants belonged to an expedition comprising a number of young men who wero interested in natural history, but who lacked scientific training. The Otago Institute had helped them to the extent of £20, and the Canterbury Institute had given them £10.