Fifteenth Annual Report.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 16, 1883, Unnumbered Page

Fifteenth Annual Report. The Board held meetings on the following dates:—8th August, 25th October, 1882; 15th January and 20th March, 1883. The members elected under clause 7 of the Act are: The Hon. Mr. Rolleston, Mr. J. McKerrow, and Mr. Martin Chapman. The following gentlemen were elected honorary members of the New Zealand Institute: Sir William Thomson, F.R.S.; Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., C.B.; and Mr. R. L. Ellery, F.R.S.,—there now being twenty-seven honorary members. The members now on the roll of the Institute are: Honorary members 27 Ordinary members— Auckland Institute 320 Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society 108 Wellington Philosophical Society 289 Westland Institute 87 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 163 Otago Institute 178 Southland Institute 62 1,234 The printing of Volume XV. was commenced on the 10th January and finished early in April, the first issue of the volumes being made about the 17th May. The volume contains sixty-two articles, also Presidents' Addresses and abstracts of papers, which appear with the Proceedings and Appendix. There are 586 pages of letter-press and 40 plates. The following is a division of the contents of the volume for comparison with that of last year:— 1883. 1882. Pages. Pages. Miscellaneous 90 200 Zoology 236 144 Botany 124 104 Chemistry — 16 Geology 60 52 Proceedings 26 54 Appendix 50 40 586 610

The volumes now in stock are: Vol I. (second edition), 400; vol. II., none; vol. III., none; vol. IV., none; vol. V., 48; vol. VI., 47; vol. VII., 146; vol. VIII., 18; vol. IX., 150; vol. X., 8; vol. XI., 60; vol. XII., 65; vol. XIII., 68; vol. XIV., 90; vol. XV., not yet fully distributed. From the Hon. Treasurer's statement of accounts it will be seen that there is a balance in hand of £77 14s. 7d. The annual reports of various Government departments connected with the objects of the Institute under the Manager's direction are appended. James Hector, Manager. Approved by the Board, 3rd August, 1883. Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Chairman.