The Library continues to be of service to members and to the Victoria University College staff and honours' students and its facilities have also been appreciated by research workers in other centres. To a certain extent, also, it is serving a direct purpose in the war effort by the use made of it during the year by scientists engaged in work of national and military importance and by U.S.A. medical service men who wished to acquire the latest knowledge in regard to the mosquito and its bearing on malaria in the Pacific Islands. The amount of binding completed during the year has been restricted because of the volume of other work which the binder has in hand. W. P. Evans, Honorary Librarian. Research Grantees: On the motion of Dr. Archey, seconded by Professor Evans, the reports of the research grantees were adopted. Reports of Research Grantees. Government Research Grants. Professor B. J. Marples, who received a grant of £20 in 1938 for research on the Little Owl, reported on 21st April, 1944, that owing to war conditions he has not yet been able to undertake the biological survey of Green Island. for which the balance of his grant, namely £5, was allocated. He asks that the grant may be held over until the times are more opportune. Dr. L. H. Briggs, who on the 3rd June, 1943, was granted £25 for a continuation of an investigation of essential oils of trees and plants endemic to New Zealand reported on the 2nd May, 1944, that the special fractionating apparatus being purchased under this grant has not yet been received and the grant has as yet not been applied for. Hutton Research Grants. Dr. F. J. Turner, who was granted £50 in 1941 and 1942 for research on metamorphic rocks, reported on the 21st April that £15 of the grant was used, by permission, for paying the excess cost of the publication of a paper on “Preferred Orientation of Olivine.” The sum of £9 (approximately) was expended upon cutting oriented sections from rocks collected at Manapouri and near Glenorchy. Expenditure of £16 had been previously reported, leaving an unexpended balance of £10 2s 6d, which he would like held over for further work next year. During the year he has done no further laboratory work, but hopes to resume the research early next year. The petrofabric investigation of the Glenorchy sections was part of a research carried out by Mr J. J. Reed under his direction, and the results will be published shortly in the American Journal Economic Geology. To date Dr Turner has published two papers embodying the results of the research and he has in hand material for at least one more paper. Dr. R. A. Falla and Mr. A. W. B. Powell were in 1934 granted £40 for a research on the Molluscan and Bird Fauna of the Sub Antarctic Islands. Since that time it has not been possible for grantees to undertake the investigation, but Dr. Falla has now reported that the grant has been expended. The field work was done with the permission and assistance of the Royal New Zealand Navy, and Navy Office has made it conditional that no description shall be published nor information divulged during the war. For this reason Dr. Falla states that he is unable to supply more detail of the research or give details of the expenditure at the present time. Mr L. E. Richdale, who in 1942 was granted £40 for ornithological research, reported on the 30th April, 1944. that work on Whero Island has continued, and there are 500 burrows involving 5 species of petrels under observation. With the erection of a hut he has been able to re-mark these burrows with totara and hardwood pegs, each carrying a numbered aluminium tag. This will secure permanency and allow him to carry out research on aspects of ornithology which require many years. As Mr Richdale need not now spend so much time on Whero he intends to extend operations to islands all round Stewart Island. The hut will greatly assist these projects. Of the six papers mentioned in last year's report, four have been published while the remaining two should appear this year. Both are in the hands of editors.