SCIENCE AND ART

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 3

SCIENCE AND ART

$ ■ ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD. The Now Zealand Board of Science and Arc met yesterday at the Dominion Museum, present: The Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister of Internal Affairs) in the chair; Professor A. P. W. Thomas, Di J. Alan Thomson, Dr. L. Cockayne, Messrs'. H. F. von Haast, C. A. Ewen, P. G. Morgan. G. M. Thomson, and J. Hjslop (Under-Secre-tary of Internal Affairs). Dr. Thonibon was elected honorary secretary, and requested to prepare a report regarding tho work of the office. The Collections Committee reported that few collections or specimens of special interest had been offered to the board for inclusion in the national collections during the year. The Minister of Internal Affairs had approved of the recommendation that tho limit in connection with purchases should be raited From £10 to £20. The Minister had decided on November 19 that expenditure on collections during the year was not desirable unless a valuable colir-cti.m was offered, when the application would he considered on its merits. Tho director, in March and April, wbile travelling on other business, had taken the opportunity to make large collections of fossils in Oamaru and South Canterbury. Later, in November, he collected insects in the midfl'o North Island district, and during the Christmas holidays collected moll'.'scn around Dunedin, Oamaru, and Chrscchurch. Mr. Phillips, Museum Assistant, who had been mainly occupied or the fish collections, had made several short expeditions in fishins craft, and had acquired useful marine material.

The Minister said that when articles of spccinl importance had become available' the necessary expenditure' had bcwi authorised. f The repr.rr- was adopted. The Publicßtions Committee reported on its worV-jfor 1017. The publication of papers dealing with "The Place Names of Banks Peninsula" (Mr. J. C. Anclcrseni an:l "A Historv of Naturalisation 'A Animals and Plants in New Zealand" (Mr. G. M. Thomson)' had been held over until after tho war. Papers bv Mtsrs. Panels and Gillinp on New Zealand's brown ooals had been edited by Professor Evans, and wero to be published as the first bulletin of tie Board of Science and Art. A report by Mr. H. V. Howe recardiu<; an iiicoraplete iuvestipation of the rcfractorv day.- of Canterbury was to bo placed in the manuscript' series of the Dominion Library. Other papers were in hand Tim first number of tho "New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology" had been issued. The journal was ti; be issued bi-monthly. The board dealt with other matters before rising.