Abstract of Annual Report.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, 1892, Page 565

Abstract of Annual Report. The report for the year ended 31st January, 1893, stated that seven ordinary meetings had been held, which were well attended, and at which twenty-nine papers had been read, as compared with fifteen in the previous year. The number of members on the roll is one hundred. The library has been much improved. The endeavour to obtain an endowment from the Government had failed. The Council say that they cannot let pass without notice the Rev. Mr. Colenso's offer of £200 to the Sir Donald McLean Memorial Fund Committee, on condition that the moneys collected for the purpose of providing a suitable memorial to the late Sir D. McLean be used towards building a museum to be called the “Sir Donald McLean Museum.” The balance-sheet showed the total receipts to have been £118 16s. 2d., and the expenditure £117 18s. 3d., while the overdraft had been reduced from £39 7s. to £11 10s. 2d., against which there are subscriptions outstanding to the amount of £23 2s.