REPORT OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 1878.
We have received a copy of the tenth annual report of the New Zealand Institute. We extract : the following particulars of general ' interest from its pages • “ la accordance with the Act the following members retired: from the Board;—Mr. VV, T. L. Travers, the Hon. Mr. G. M. Waterhouse, and the Hon. Mr. E. W. Stafford. Tho two former gentlemen were re-appointed, and Mr. Thomas Mason was appointed in tho room of the Hon. Mr. Stafford. “In compliance with clause 7 of the Act, the Incorporated Societies elected the following gentlemen as governors of the institute : —Mr. J. 0. Crawford, F.G.S., Mr. Thomas Kirk, F.L.S., and the Bishop of Nelson. “The ' honorary members elected under Statute IV. of the rules of the institute are:— ■ Hia Excellency Governor F. A. Weld, C.M.G., Tasmania ; Professor Spencer Baird, U.S.A.; and Dr. D. Sharp, Scotland.” Tho number of bon. members is 27 ; of ordinary, members 1116. Volume 2. of the Transactions of tho Society , has been printed and circulated, but the whole edition having been exhausted, none can be offered for sale. In reference to the. Museum, we find that the names of 15,000 visitors wore entered during the past year. Ths herbarium is inagreat measure still inaccessible to students, owing to there being no space for the di-posal of the gift from the British Museum, containing 23,000 species of plants. In speaking of the natural history, collection, tho report says : The detailed study and classification of the collection is rapidly advancing, and arrangements have been made with the Education Department to secure the services of a wood engraver, so that the illustrations for the new ■ editions of the Natural History Catalogues, which are now out of print, may be obtained in a form that will admit of them being also used for tho illustration of elementary text books for the use of schools. Numerous additions have been made to the other departments. Under : tho head ng ■ethnologicalj We note the only important addiiuon has been a collection of the weapons of the Isle of Paris, New Caledonian natives, the moat interesting of which are sling-stones made of steatite, which are projected from a sling made of cloth spun from tho hair of the flying fox. A valuable addition has been made to the minerals by the receipt of a collection of specimens from Canada, collected by Mr. A. K. O. Selwyn, The necessity for certain additions and repairs to the Observatory have been represented to tho Government, and, in particular, the desirability of having a second rating clock, as at present, when the single astronomical clock is under adjustment, intervals occur during which the time-ball cannot be dropped with accuracy. The accounts show tho receipts to have been £661 :6s. id., the expenditure £624 3s. 6d., leaving a balance in hand of £37 Is. lOd. Two hundred and thirty-one analyses have been performed in laboratory during tho year, a full account of which will bo published separately, "
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5497, 8 November 1878, Page 7
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