Publication Committee's Report.—The report of this committee was received and adopted with the deletion of one paragraph. Mr. J. C. Andersen attended by request of the Board and gave information regarding the progress of the printing of Volume 54 and other matters. Professor Marsden moved, and Dr. Cockayne seconded, That Volume 55 be not published until 1924. The motion was lost. Dr. Cockayne, seconded by Professor Marsden, proposed that what would be Volume 54 be now published in two volumes as Volumes 54 and 55. The motion was lost. Report of Publication Committee. It is to be hoped that Volume 54 (for 1922) may be issued towards the end of January. There are several reasons for the delay—financial difficulties, an early session of Parliament, and an extra number of papers, many of great length. Seventy-eight papers by fifty-five authors were submitted, forty-eight by thirty-eight authors being accepted for publication, as against sixty-seven papers by forty-eight authors submitted last year, of which fifty-three by thirty-seven authors were accepted. The committee had much difficulty, firstly in reducing the number of papers, secondly in reducing the length of many of those accepted. Reduction was made first by the authors themselves, and in some cases a further reduction was made by the committee. In spite of the fact that authors were required to pay for their illustrations, the papers are more fully illustrated than usual. The committee observes this with pleasure, whilst at the same time it feels that the penalizing of enthusiastic workers is neither equitable nor desirable. A paper good enough for acceptance should be accepted as a whole; and the committee would suggest that papers might be limited to say thirty pages, except for extraordinary reasons, and illustrations limited to four plates and four pages of text-figures, or their equivalent, the author being put to no expense except for extra copies of reprints. If, however, any author wishes to publish a longer paper or to illustrate more fully, he should be at liberty to do so, subject, of course, to the usual censorship, provided he is willing to pay for the additional space and illustrations. So many new species are dealt with in the present volume that it has been felt that its value would be enhanced by a full index, and this has been supplied; and if such index can be continued from year to year the necessary task of indexing the whole set of the Transactions will be a task of known magnitude, and not one whose magnitude grows with the years. For the next volume only some thirty papers are in hand—mostly short, a few of moderate length—and it will probably be possible to limit that volume to two hundred pages or less. For the Committee. Johannes C. Andersen, Hon. Editor. Research Grant Committee's Report.—This was received. On the motion of Mr. Aston, seconded by Dr. Hilgendorf, it was resolved, That a property list of books, apparatus, &c., bought out of the Research Grant Fund be compiled, and circulated to members of the Board and printed in the Transactions. On the motion of Mr. Aston, seconded by Dr. Cockayne, it was resolved that the Research Grant Committee be asked to make a comprehensive report on the state of all researches undertaken with the Institute's financial aid during the last ten years. It was resolved that those applicants in the Research Grant Report who asked for further grants be informed that their requests are held over until the Research Grant Committee can give some idea of the state of this fund. Report Of The Research Grant Committee For The Year Ending 31st December, 1922. Dr. C. E. Adams, who in 1919 was granted £55, through the Wellington Philosophical Society, for astronomical instruments, reported on the 5th January, 1923, that a prism had been secured in England at a cost of £33 11s. 11d. He states that before the prism can be used it must be suitably mounted on the telescope with a camera, &c. The estimated cost of mounting is £12 and the camera £8, and he makes application for an additional £20 for this purpose.