Abstract of Report of Council For 1875.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 8, 1875, Page 432

Abstract of Report of Council For 1875. In submitting their annual report for the year 1875, the Council congratulate the members of the Institute upon the increase in their numbers; but they regret that the average attendance should have diminished. They are also sorry to observe that few papers have been contributed, and that several valuable ones have been sent for publication to the English scientific periodicals instead of appearing in the “Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.” The particulars of the unfortunate difference which has arisen between the Canterbury Philosophical Institute and the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute need not, the Council are of opinion, be recapitulated here. Full details of the question at issue have been forwarded to the President of the Royal Society of London, and the Council await with confidence his decision thereon. They cannot, however, forbear expressing the satisfaction they have derived from the cordial support afforded to them by the Otago Institute in this matter. The Institute numbers 102 members, thirteen having joined during the year, and two members have died.

Eleven general meetings have been held, including three special meetings, at which ten papers have been read, of which seven have already been printed. Professor Rolleston, M.D., of Oxford, has been unanimously recommended to the Board of Governors as an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute, upon the understanding that, should he be nominated by any other affiliated Society, H. W. Bates, Esq., F.L.S., Assistant Secretary Royal Geographical Society, 1, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London, W., should be recommended. Dr. Julius von Haast, F.R.S., has been chosen to vote at the election of the Board of Governors.