Incorporated Societies. xix 



Extracts from the Rules of the Auckland Institute. 



1. Any person desiring to become a member of the Institute shall be 

 proposed in writing by two members, and shall be balloted for at the 

 next meeting of the Council. 



4. New members on election to pay one guinea entrance-fee, in addi- 

 tion to the annual subscription of one guinea, the annual subscription 

 being payable in advance on the first day of April for the then current 

 year. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment 

 of ten pounds ten shillings, in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



10. Annual general meeting of the Society on the third Monday of 

 February in each year. Ordinary business meetings are called by the 

 Council from time to time. 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Office-bearebs for 1889. — President — H. E. Webb, 

 F.E.M.S. ; Vice-ijresidents — Professor F. W. Haslam, M.A. ; 

 S. Hurst Seager, A. E. I.E. A. ; Hon. Treasurer— B.. E. Webb, 

 F.E.M.S. ; Hon. Secretary— R. M. Lang, M.A. ; Hon. Audi- 

 tor— G. E. Blakiston ; Council— Gi. Hogben, M.A., J. T. Mee- 

 son, B.A., Professor Hutton, F.G.S., H. 0. Forbes, W. H. 

 Symes, M.D. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 



21. The ordinary meetings of the Institute shall be held on the first 

 Thursday of each month during the months from March to November 

 inclusive. 



35. Members of the Institute shall pay one guinea annually as a sub- 

 scription to the funds of the Institute. The subscription shall be due on 

 the first of November in every year. 



37. Members may compound for all annual subscriptions of the cur 

 rent and future years by paying ten guineas. 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Office-bearers foe 1889. — President — Dr. de Zouche ; 

 Vice-presidents — J. C. Thomson, A. Wilson, M.A. ; Ho7i. 

 Secretary — Professor Gibbons; Hon. Treasurer — E. Melland; 

 Co^mcil — D. Petrie, M.A., Professor Scott, Dr. Hocken, Eev. 

 H. Belcher, LL.D., Professor Parker, F. E. Chapman, and 

 G. M. Thomson, F.L.S. ; Auditor— J). Brent, M.A. 



Extracts from the Constitution and Rules of the Otago Institute. 



2. Any person desiring to join the Society may be elected by ballot, 

 on being proposed in writing at any meeting of the Council or Society by 

 two members, and on payment of the annual subscription of one guinea 

 for the year then current. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment 

 of ten pounds and ten shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



8. An annual general meeting of the members of the Society shall 

 be held in January in each year, at which meeting not less than ten mem- 



