708 Proceedings. 



Eight meetings have been held during the year, at which twenty-one 

 papers on various scientific and literary subjects were read. 



Arrangements were made early in the year for the erection of an 

 addition to the Museum, intended to contain the ethnological specimens. 

 The building is well advanced, and will probably be completed in a few 

 months' time. As the whole of the collections will be rearranged when it 

 is finished, few changes of importance have been made in the Museum 

 during the past year. The chief additions have been some valuable ex- 

 changes of mammals, birds, and minerals received from the National 

 Museum, Washington, and some fine mammals from the Imperial Museum 

 of Natural History at Florence. The valuable collection of Maori ethno- 

 logical specimens deposited in the Museum by Captain Gilbert Mair, and 

 alluded to in the last report, has been fully arranged and labelled, and 

 has attracted much attention. 



Reference was made to the crowded state of the library, which now 

 contains over five thousand volumes, and a recommendation was made 

 that additional accommodation should be provided at an early date. 



Election of Officers for 1892.— PrcsicZew^— Professor 

 F. D. Brown; Vice-jjresidents — James Stewart, C.E., and 

 J. Martin, F.G.S. ; Council— B.ev. J. Bates, W. Berry, Eev. J. 

 Campbell, C. Cooper, T. Peacock, Professor Pond, J. A. Pond,. 

 E. Eoberton, M.D., Professor A. P. Thomas, F.L.S., J. H. 

 Upton, E. Withy; Secretary and Treasurer — T. F. Cheese- 

 man, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Auditor— :i. Eeid. 



