Various sums have been expended in procuring collections of specimens useful for exchange, and the amount of £51 6s. has been granted in aid of the Museum funds of affiliated Societies, while a balance of £33 9s. 8d. remains in the hands of the Treasurer. Four Societies were granted incorporation on the following dates:— Date. No. of Mem. Wellington Philosophical Society. 10th June, 1868. 104 Auckland Institute " 68 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 22nd Oct., 1868. 57 Weetland Naturalists' and Acclimatization Society " 29 In March, 1868, one of the first Governors, the Hon. Mr. W. B. D. Mantell, retired from the Board to allow of the appointment of the Manager as a Governor, with the view of facilitating business. In accordance with the Act, the following Governors retired from the Board, but were re-nominated, viz.:—Sir David Monro, A. Ludlam, Esq., J. E. FitzGerald, Esq. Notices were received from the Wellington Philosophical Society on 3rd November, 1868, and the Auckland Institute on 5th January, 1869, that they had elected, respectively, J. C. Crawford, Esq., and Dr. D. Pollen, to be Governors according to the Act. The other two Societies having joined at too late a period of the year to permit the provision of the Act being carried out, they are not represented at the Board during this year. Seven meetings were held during the Session of the Assembly of 1868, in the Colonial Museum, at which addresses and lectures were delivered by the following gentlemen :—His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, Mr. FitzGerald, Hon. Mr. Mantell, Mr. Travers, Dr. Hector, and Mr. Wakefield. D. Monro, Chairman.