PEOCBEDINGS 



OP THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 



1917. 



FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Wellington, 29th and 30th January, 1918. 



The annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute Board of Governors was 

 held in the Dominion Museum Library on Tuesday, the 29th January, 1918, 

 at 10 a.m. 



Present : Professor Benham, President (in the chair) ; Professors Kirk. 

 Marshall, Segar, and A. P. W. Thomas ; Drs. Cockayne, Hilgendorf, and 

 Allan Thomson ; Messrs. Aston, Birks, Eliott, Ewen, Hill, Hogben, Parr, 

 and G. M. Thomson. 



The Secretary called the roll, and the President apologized for the 

 absence of Professor Chilton, who was laid aside by illness. 



Presidential Address.- — -The President then delivered his presidential 

 address (see p. 338). 



A hearty vote of thanks to the President for his address was moved by 

 Mr. Hill, seconded by Professor Marshall, and carried. A Committee con- 

 sisting of the President and Dr. Hilgendorf was, on the motion of Pro- 

 fessor Kirk, seconded by Professor Thomas, appointed to consider and report 

 on points in the President's address which call for action, to report to this 

 meeting. 



The Incorporated Societies' Annual Reports and Balance-sheets for their 

 last financial years were laid on the table. Received. 



The Report of the Standing Committee was considered clause by clause 

 and adopted (Appendices A, B, C to be discussed later). 



Report or the Standing Committee fob the Year ending 31st December, 1917. 



Five meetings of the Committee have been held during the year, the attendance 

 being as follows: Dr. Cockayne, 2; Professor Easterfield, 5; Professor Kirk, 5; 

 Dr. Thomson, 5 ; and Mr. Aston, 5. 



Hector Memorial Fund Award. — No details of the presentation to Sir E. Rutherford 

 have yet been received, although medal and prize were sent to England over a year 

 ago through the Department of Internal Affairs and the Public Trustee respectively. 

 The 1917 medal was publicly presented to Dr. C. Chilton at a meeting of the Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury held on the 1st August, 1917. The Public Trustee has been 

 nstructed to forward a cheque for the amount of the prize to Di. Chilton. 



