NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Thibty-first Annual Eeport. 



The Board held meetings on the 26th January and 7th Sep- 

 tember, 1899. 



Messrs. Tregear and Mason retired from the Board in 

 comphance with the Act, and there was a third vacancy 

 caused by the death of the late Mr. Maskell. His Excel- 

 lency the Governor reinstated the two retiring members, and 

 appointed Mr. J. W. Joynt to fill the third vacancy. 



The following gentlemen were elected by the incorporated 

 societies to be Governors of the Board for the year — viz., 

 Mr. James McKerrow, Mr. S. Percy Smith, and the Hon. 

 C. C. Bowen. 



There are now five vacancies on the roll of honorary 

 members, the vacancies during last year having been caused 

 by the deaths of Sir George Grey, Sir George Bowen, and 

 Sir Frederick McCoy. 



The members now on the roll are : Honorary members, 

 25 ; Auckland Institute, 163 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical 

 Society, 61 ; Wellington Philosophical Society. 1.41 ; Philo- 

 sophical Institute of Canterbury, 75 ; Otago Institute, 105 ; 

 Nelson Philosophical Society, 16 ; Westland Institute, 59 : 

 making a total of 645. 



The volumes of Transactions now on hand are : Yol. I. 

 (second edition), 233 ; Vol. V., 8 ; Vol. VI., 15 ; Vol. VII., 98 

 Vol. IX., 98; Vol. X., 129; Vol. XI., 27; Vol. XII., 29 

 Vol. XIII., 30; Vol. XIV., 53; Vol. XV., 164; Vol. XVI. 

 164; Vol. XVIL, 163; Vol. XVIIL, 135; Vol. XIX., 154 

 Vol. XX., 155 ; Vol. XXL, 87 ; Vol. XXII., 89 ; Vol. XXIII. 

 163; Vol. XXIV., 167; Vol. XXV., 167; Vol. XXVI., 173 

 Vol. XXVIL, 176; Vol. XXVIIL, 180; Vol. XXIX., 450 

 ' Vol. XXX., 400; Vol. XXXI., not yet fully distributed. 



