THE HUTTON MEMORIAL
[From Our Coerespoxdent.] WELLINGTON, January 31. The “ Hutton Memorial Research Fund ” came to the trout at the annual meting of the Ncw_ Zealand Institute to-day. The committee (Drs Chiltorn and Cockayne, and Messrs Speight and Laing) reported that they had collected subscriptions with the result that a sum of about £330 had been raised from private subscriptions. While the total amount thus raised must be considered very satisfactory the committee could not nelp pointing ont that the fund had not received support from many quarters from which such support might have been naturally expected, thus although it was made clear from tlie commencement that the benefits of the fund were to be extended to the whole of New Zealand by far the 'greater amount of the subscriptions had been contributed by Canterbury _ and Otago. Of the institutions affiliated only the Otago Institute, the Philosophical Inshcuto (Canterbury), the Westland and the Hawke’s Philosophical Instirute had contributed, and the amount of private subscriptions received from the North Island had been very small indeed. As the committee felt that tiie mention of these facts would be sufficient to bring about the remedy they suggested that the fund should ho still kept open so that .all interested in the matter might have an opportunity of subscribing to the fund. During the year the committee took an opportunity of interviewing the Premier and laying before him the claims of the fund on -.ie colony. As a res’dt a sum of £3OO was placed upon the Supplementary Estimates, and it was hoped that this amount would soon, he paid to the fund. The committee made the following recommendations:—(l) That - the fund should remain open for further contributions, (2) that three trustees should bo appointed by the Board of Governors to have control of the moneys belonging to the fund ; (3) that the trustees should be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £IOO in procuring a bronze medal to be known as the Hutton medal; (4) that the remainder of the fund, after purchase of the medal should be invested in some approved manner, and that the interest arising from such investment should he used for .the. furtherance of the objects of the fund ; (5) that the Hutton medal should be awarded from time to time by the Board of Governors to persons who had made some notable contribution in connection with the zoology;, botany or geology of New Zealand j (6) that the Board of Governors should make grants from time to , time from the accrued interest of the invested portion of the fund (in accordance with regulations) to persons or committees who required assistance in. prosecuting research. , The .attached regulations suggested that the medal should not be awarded oftener than once in three years, and not for any research made previous to December last, and preference to Now Zealanders was added ns a condition indispensible.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 2
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484THE HUTTON MEMORIAL Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 2
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