NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE: TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1894 Session I, H-20

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1894. NEW ZEALAND.

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE: TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

Meetings of the Board were held on the following dates : 11th July, 1893, and 15th February and 18th July, 1894. The members elected, in conformity with the Act, by the incorporated societies as Governors of the Institute are : Mr. S. Percy Smith, Mr. James McKerrow, and Major-General Schaw. The members who retired from the Board, in conformity with clause 6 of the Act, are : The Hon. Mr.- Mantell, Mr. W. T. L. Travers, and Mr. E. Tregear; and these gentlemen have all been reappointed by His Excellency the Governor. The vacancies caused in the roll of honorary members by the death of Sir Richard Owen and Professor Van Beneden have been filled by the election of Professor Thiselton Dyer, MA., C.M.G., F.R.S., Director of Royal Gardens, Kew, and the Rev. Robert Henry Codrington, D.D., author of " Melanesian Languages," &c. The members now on the roll of the Institute are : Honorary members, 30; ordinary members —Auckland Institute, 179; Wellington Philosophical Society, 134; Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 66; Otago Institute, 111; Westland Institute, 67; Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society, 94 ; Nelson Philosophical Society, 21: making a total of 702. The volumes of Transactions now in stock are : Vol. I. (second edition), 250; Vol. V., 20; Vol. VI., 23; Vol. VII., 110; Vol. IX., 112; Vol. X., 142; Vol. XL, 33; Vol. XII., 40; Vol. XIIL, 38; Vol. XIV, 62; Vol. XV., 173; Vol. XVI., 174; Vol. XVII., 176; Vol. XVIII., 150; Vol. XIX., 163; Vol. XX., 162; Vol. XXI., 96; Vol. XXII., 96; Vol. XXIIL, 175; Vol. XXIV., 178 ; Vol. XXV., 180; Vol. XXVI., not yet fully distributed. The volume (XXVI.) just published was issued in June, and contains seventy-three articles, together with addresses and abstracts which appear in the Proceedings. The volume contains 730 pages of letterpress and 54 plates. The following is a comparison of the contents of the present with those of last year's volume : — 1894. 1893. Pages. Pages. Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... ... ... 202 134 Zoology ... ... ... ... ... ... 258 260 Botany ... ... ... ... ... ... 88 82 Geology ... ... ... ... ... ... 76 36 Chemistry ... ... ... ... ... ... — 6 Proceedings ... ... ... ... ... ... 64 50 Appendix ... ... ... ... ... ... 42 44 730 612 The amount expended in printing Vol. XXV. was £388 9s. for 612 pages, and that for Vol. XXVI. £447 19s. 6d. for 730 pages. In consequence of the large increase in the number of valuable works of reference and other scientific publications, it has been necessary to rearrange the books in the library, and to prepare a new edition of the printed catalogue. Good progress has been made with this latter work, which it is hoped will be ready for issue in a few months. The splendid presentation by Mr. C. R. Carter of publications relating to New Zealand, containing 850 separate works, has now been thoroughly arranged and encased in a manner worthy of so valuable a donation. The Honorary Treasurer's statement of accounts shows a balance in hand in current account of £96 12s. 6d. The amount devoted to printing of memoirs and postponed papers (in accordance with resolution) is now £730. Approved by Board. Glasgow, James Hectoe, Chairman. Manager. 18th July, 1894.

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New Zealand Institute Accounts foe 1893-94. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand, llfch July, 1893 .. .. 61 16 0 Printing Vol. XXVI. .. .. .. 447 19 6 Parliamentary grant for 1893-94 .. .. 500 0 0 Expense of library, cataloguing, &c. .. 48 0 6 Sale of volumes, late Triibner and Co., and in Foreign postage, freight on books, stationery, the colony .. .. .. .. 40 19 0 and miscellaneous .. .'. .. 28 3 0 Contribution from Wellington Philosophical Balance.. .. .. .. 96 12 6 Society .. .. .. .. 18 0 6 £620 15 6 £620 15 6 Wm. Thos. Locke Teavees, 18th July, 1894. Honorary Treasurer. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,350 copies), £1 6s.

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