326 Proceedings. 



Hution Memorial Medal for 1917. — The medal was publicly presented to Dr. P. 

 Marshall by His Excellency the Governor- General when on a visit to Wanganui in 

 September, but no details have yet been received. 



Jubilee of the Institute. — This year the New Zealand Institute completes its fiftieth 

 year of activity. The Standing Committee recommends that, owing to the war, any 

 recognition of the Jubilee be postponed until a more convenient season. 



War Roll of Honour. — -The Hon. Secretary has collected data from the incorporated 

 societies for the preparation of a Roll of Honour to be published at some future date. 



Volume 48, Transactions and Proceedings, N.Z. Institute. — This was issued in bulk 

 to the incorporated societies in October, 1916, but Parliament having adjourned, a 

 copy was not laid on the table of the House of Representatives until the 3rd July, 

 1917, and on that of the Legislative Council on the 5th July, 1917. 



Distribution of Transactions. — The Standing Committee regrets that it was not 

 found possible to distribute the Transactions volume 49 to each member by post from 

 Wellington. 



Distribution of Excess of Back Numbers of Transactions. — -A few applications from 

 libraries have been received for partial sets, and the following should be added to the 

 list of those who have received them : — 



Department of Agriculture Library, Wellington. 



Technical College, Wanganui. 



Fiji Museum, Suva. 



Kuaotunu Public Library, Kuaotunu. 



Mailing-list. — The following has been added to the mailing-list, and will in future 

 receive the Transactions as published : — 



American Journal of Science (Editors), Yale University, New Haven, Con- 

 necticut, U.S.A." 



Resolutions of the Standing Committee — Banking Account : It was resolved that 

 only the following be authorized to operate on the histitute's banking accounts : viz., 

 the Hon. Treasurer, the Hon. Secretary, and Professor Easterfield. This to coirtinue 

 in force until revoked in writing. 



Major Brourts Bulletin. — -It was resolved that 400 copies of Major Broirn's bulletin 

 be printed. 



National Efficiency and Research. — A most important feature in the history of the 

 New Zealand Institute was the appeal from the Government National Efficiency Board 

 for advice on the relation of scientific and industrial research to national efficiency. 

 On the 7th June, 1917, a letter from the Chairman of the National Efficiency Board 

 (Mr. William Ferguson) was received by the Standing Committee, asking its advice, 

 and suggesting that the Committee should hold a special meeting to consider the 

 following resolution forwarded by the National Efficiency Board : — " Scientific and 

 Industrial Research : Resolved, That the Standing Committee of the New Zealand 

 Institute be asked to advise the Chairman on the matter, with power to consult other 

 scientific men technologists in the Dominion, and the Committee be requested to hold 

 its first meeting on a date when, if possible, the Senate of the University will be in 

 Wellington, so that those members of that body who are members of the Committee 

 can attend its deliberations/' 



The Standing Committee referred the matter to the President of the Institute 

 (Professor Benham, Dunedin), asking for authority to resolve itself into a committee 

 with power to co-opt members outside those already on the Board of Governors, to 

 receive suggestions from the incorporated societies and other bodies and persons 

 interested in any scheme of organization of research and industry, to collect these 

 suggestions received, and to prepare a scheme for submission to the full Board of 

 Governors. 



A confidential repoit on the organization of scientific and industrial research, by Dr. 

 J. Allan Thomson, dated the 20th July, 1916, to the Hon. the Minister of Internal Affairs, 

 was used as a basis of discussion, with the consent of the Hon. the Minister, who sup- 

 plied a limited number of typed copies for private circulation. At a further meeting on 

 the 5th July the Standing Committee received a letter from the President empowering 

 the Committee to proceed in the direction desired. The Committee therefore co-opted 

 the following: Dr. C. E. Adams, Mr. D. C. Bates, Dr. C. A. Cotton, Mr. William 

 Ferguson, Dr. Frengley, Mr. F. W. Furkcrt. Mr. W. H. Holmes, Mr. H. H. Jackson, 

 Mr. J. C. Lewis. Dr. J. S. Maclaurin, Mr. W. B. Montgomery, Mr. P. G. Morgan, 

 Mr. W. H. Morton, Mr. Evan Parry, Dr. C. J. Reakes, and Mr. E. Phillips Turner. 



Certain bodies were also asked to select someone to represent them on the Com- 

 mittee', and the following were so elected : The Industrial Corporation of New Zealand 

 appointed its president, Mr. F. J. Evans ; the Workers' Education Association of 



