•512 Proceedings. 



3. "On the Disappearance of Young Trout from our 

 Streams," by W. Ferguson; communicated by T. W. Kirk. 

 {Transactions, p. 235.) 



4. " Note on a Eock Specimen collected by the Eev. W. 

 S. Green near the Summit of Mount Cook," by Professor T. 

 ■G. Bonney, F.E.S. ; communicated by Professor Hutton. 

 {Transactions, p. 334.) 



Handsome and interesting specimens of Graptolites, which are in- 

 teresting forms of great antiquity ; also ores of copper and antimony 

 from Nelson, and Alexandra, in Otago, collected by Mr. James Park, of 

 the Geological Survey, were exhibited by the Director. 



Annual Meeting : ISth February, 1889. 



W. M. Maskell, F.E.M.S., President, in the chair. 



1. The Annual Eeport and Balance-sheet were read and 

 adopted. 



Absteact. 



Ten general meetings had been held, at which thirty-one papers were 

 read on the following subjects : Eight on geology, nine on zoology, one 

 on botany, three on chemistry, and ten on miscellaneous subjects. A con- 

 versazione was held in the IMuseum on the occasion of the departure from 

 the colony for a time of Mr. W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. Thirteen new mem- 

 bers had been elected during the year. The balance-sheet showed that the 

 receipts, including the balance brought forward for the year, amounted to 

 £206 18s. 2d., and the expenditure to £150 7s. 2d., leaving a balance in 

 hand of £50 lis. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. 



The report contained a proposal made by the President, with 

 the view to the greater encouragement of research in the different 

 departments of the Society's work, and it had been resolved to sub- 

 mit the following scheme for the approval of members : That the Society 

 offer bronze medals, to be given annually for the best papers in the 

 following groups : (1) Natural science (botany or zoology or geology of the 

 New Zealand zoological sub-region), one medal ; (2) physics, chemistry, and 

 technical science, one medal ; (3) history, archeology, and anthropology, 

 one medal ; (4) literature and philology, one medal ; (5) philosophy ; 

 (6) art. That the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute be 

 asked to appoint a judge in any group in each year for the papers com- 

 peting in that group ; that only those papers be submitted to the judges 

 which shall have been read during the year at a meeting of the Society ; 

 that the writers of the papers must be members of the Society at the 

 time the papers are read ; that each writer must declare when sending 

 in his paper if he wishes to compete ; that the judges should be 

 empowered to declare that in their opinion no paper of the year is 

 sufficiently meritorious for a medal ; that for the foregoing object the 

 Society set apart annually £20 only of its income as a prize fund ; that 

 the medals be presented by the President at the first meeting of the 

 Society ensuing after the receipt of the judge's awards ; and that the 

 Governors of the New Zealand Institute be requested to announce 

 specially in the " Transactions " the names of the successful writers, 

 though not necessarily to print the papers. 



The scheme was, after discussion, adopted. 



