Resolution regarding the late Professor T. Jeffery Parker, F.R.S. (in Report)

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 30, 1897, Page 572

The Council on the 30th November passed the following resolution: “The Council of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury wishes to express its deep sense of the great loss sustained by the scientific world through the untimely death of Dr. T. J. Parker, F.R.S., late Professor of Biology in the Otago University, and Curator of the University Museum.” The Council nominated your President, Dr. Thomas, to vote in the election of Governors of the New Zealand Institute for the ensuing year. The number of members at the close of the year was seventy-seven, the apparent decrease of one since last year being due to the fact that the law with regard to arrears of subscriptions has been rigidly adhered to in making up the list, and thus a number of names have been removed which were merely dummies. As a matter of fact, thirteen new members were elected during the year. The balance-sheet shows that the total receipts for the year have been £83 3s. 5d., and the expenditure £81 5s. 10d., leaving the Institute with a balance of £21 17s. 3d., including £16 19s. 8d. carried forward from last year. The receipts have thus been more than double what they were in the preceding year, an improvement which must be attributed to the fact that your Treasurer has taken the question of finance into his own hands, and dispensed with the services of a collector. During the year an arrangement has been entered into with the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College whereby the old rooms in the Public Library have been abandoned. The ordinary meetings and Council meetings have been held in the Biological School of the Canterbury College, and the library of the Institute has been removed to the Canterbury Museum, where it still remains the property of the Institute, and is available for use by members as before. The additions to the library by presentation and purchase have taken place as usual, and the sum of £20 has been expended upon binding. The honorary librarian, Dr. Evans, has thoroughly rearranged the

library in its new quarters, and completed a manuscript catalogue, so that the use of the library by members has been greatly facilitated. During the past year the photographic section has held six meetings. At its last meeting the Council of the Institute appointed a subcommittee to consider the programme for the ensuing year, and this subcommittee recommends to the incoming Council a continuation of the methods adopted during the past two years, with a view to making the meetings of the Institute of more general interest. Captain Hutton has kindly consented to deliver a special popular lecture on “The New Darwinism,” while Professor Bickerton, Mr. R. Speight, Mr. J. B. Mayne, and Mr. L. Cockayne have accepted invitations to deliver short addresses on subjects of general interest at the ordinary meetings.