Sixteenth Annual Report

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 17, 1884, Unnumbered Page

Sixteenth Annual Report Meetings of the Board have been held on the following dates: 3rd August, 1883; 20th December, 1883; and 20th March, 1884. The three members who retired from the Board in conformity with clause 6 of the Act were: Mr. W. T. L. Travers, the Hon. Mr. G. Randall Johnson, and Dr. Hector; Mr. Travers and Dr. Hector were reappointed, and the Hon. Mr. G. M. Waterhouse fills the place of the Hon. Mr. G. R. Johnson. The members elected under clause 7 of the Act are: Mr. James McKerrow, Hon. Mr. Rolleston, and Dr. Buller. A distinguished honorary member of the Institute has been lost in Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the news of whose death lately reached here. Dr. Hochstetter was among the first to be elected in 1870. There are now three vacancies in the roll of honorary members. The following are the number of members now on the books of the Institute:— Honorary Members 27 Ordinary Members—     Auckland Institute 305     Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society 111     Wellington Philosophical Society 246     Westland Institute 110     Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 163     Otago Institute 193     Southland Institute 70     Nelson Philosophical Society 86 Total 1,811 The volumes of Transactions 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., none; vol. IX., 150; vol. X., 180; vol. XI., 60; vol. XII., 65; vol. XIII., 68; vol. XIV., 90; vol. XV., 203; vol. XVI., not fully distributed. The printing of Volume XVI. of Transactions of the year was commenced the latter end of January and completed the end of April, and issued early in May. The volume contains fifty-seven articles, and also addresses and

abstracts of articles which are included in the Proceedings and Appendix. There are 639 pages of letter-press and forty-four plates. The following is a comparison of the contents of the volume with that for the previous year:— 1884. 1883. Pages. Pages. Miscellaneous 72 90 Zoology 324 236 Botany 118 124 Chemistry 4 — Geology 13 60 Proceedings 46 26 Appendix 62 50 639 586 The Honorary Treasurer's statement of accounts is appended, from which it will be seen that there is a liability amounting to £67 16s. 11d., the balance due on account of printing of vol. XVI, against which there is a sum of £39 5s. 1 ½d. in the hands of the London agent, making a deficiency on the year's accounts of £28 11s. 9 ½d. James Hector, Manager. Approved by the Board, 30th September, 1884. Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Chairman.