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1882. NEW ZEALAND.

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 1881-82 (FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE)

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

The Board held meetings on the 28th July, and Uth November, 1881. The retiring members, in conformity with the Act, were Messrs W. T. L. Travers, T. Mason, and the Hon. G. R. Johnson, all of whom were re-appointed by His Excellency the Governor. The elected members under clause 7 of the Act are : Mr. Justice Gillies, the Hon. Wm. Rolleston and Mr. James McKerrow. There are now rive vacancies on the roll of honorary members. The members on the roll of the Institute now number : Honorary Members, 25. Ordinary Members : Auckland Institute, 301 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society, 107 * Wellington Philosophical Society, 277; Westland Institute, 100; Philosophical Institute, Canterbury, 197; Otago Institute, 213; Southland Institute, 65 ; Total, 1,285. The Nelson Association having withdrawn from incorporation, the number is nominally less than that for last year by fifty members. The printing of Vol. XIV. was commenced in February and completed early in April, a portion of the edition being ready for issue towards the end of May. The volume contains seventy-eight articles, also Presidents' Addresses and abstracts of papers which appear in the Proceedings and Appendix. There are 610 pages of letter press and 39 plates. The following is a division of the contents of the volume for comparison with last year's work :— 1882. 1881. Pages. Pages. Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 200 170 Zoology ... ... ... ... ... 144 79 Botany ... ... ... ... . . 104 147 Chemistry .... ... ... ... ... 16 4 Geology ... ... ... ... ... 52 21 Proceedings ... ... ... ... 54 42 Appendix ... ... ... ... ... 40 40 610 503 The volumes of the Transactions now on hand are—Vol. 1., 410; Vol. 11., none ; Vol. 111., none * Vol. IV., none; Vol. V, 50 ; Vol. VI, 50; Vol. VIL, 150 ; Vol. VIII, 20; Vol. IX., 160 ; Vol. X., 10 ; Vol. XL, 70 ; Vol. XII., 70 ; Vol. XIII., 70 ; Vol. XIV, not yet fully distributed. From the Hon. Treasurer's balance-sheet it will be seen that there is a balance of £5 lis lOd. to the credit of the Board, against which there is the balance due to the publishers of £12 13s 2d ; on the other hand there is a considerable balance from the sale of volumes in the hands of the London Agents. The Annual Reports of the various departments connected with the Institute are appended. James Hector, Approved by the Board, Bth August, 1882. Manager. G. Randall Johnson, Chairman.

Accounts of New Zealand Institute, 1881-82' Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d Balance in hand, 28th July, 1881 49 2 1 Printing Vol. XIV .. 582 2 0 Vote for 1881-82 ... ... ... 500 0 0 Purchase of second hand Vols, of TransContributions from Wellington Philoso- actions of New Zealand Institute, 5 phical Society (one-sixth of annual Vols., &c. .. ... ... 2 5 0 revenue) ... ... ... 20 19 10 Miscellaneous ... ... ... 2 1 Sale ot volumes ... .. ... 19 19 0 Balance in hana ... ... ... 5n jo £590 0 II £590 0 11 ' Arthur Stock, Bth August, 1882. Hon. Treasurer.