478 Proceedings. 



Report of the Hutton Memorial Award Committee. 



The Committee of Award unanimously recommend that the medal for 1920 be 

 awarded to Rev. John E. Holloway, D.Sc. 



The Committee have reviewed the claims of other biologists and geologists, but 

 have been so impressed by the brilliant work of Dr. Holloway, by his patience and 

 enthusiasm in his search for material, by his keenness of observation, and by the 

 highly important results obtained in his researches on the life-histories of the Lycopo- 

 diaceae, as well as that on the embyrology of Tmesipteris — botanical studies of .out- 

 standing merit and of far-reaching interest — that they place his work on a higher plane 

 than that of other men whose publications may nevertheless be more numerous. 



W. B. Benham, Convener. 



Hector Award Committee. — ^The President also opened the sealed 

 recommendation of the Hector Award Committee, which proposed that the 

 award should be made this year to Mr. S. Percy Smith, for ethnology. 

 Mr. H. Hill moved, and Professor Thomas seconded, the adoption of the 

 report. Carrie.d- 



Report of Hector Memorial Award Committee. 



All members of the Hector Award Committee — Messrs. Spencer, Cheeseman, Thom- 

 son, and myself — agree that the award of the medal for ethnology should be made to 

 Mr. S. Percy Smith. This conclusion is based on his remarkable services to science, 

 as shown in his voluminous writings and his conducting of the Journal of the Polynesian 

 Society since 1892. . • Elsdon Best. 



Publication Committee's Report. — The report of the Publication Com- 

 mittee was adopted on the motion of Dr. Marshall, seconded by Professor 

 Chilton, and it was also resolved, That the Committee be recommended 

 to proceed as soon as possible with the publication of Mr. Dixon's papers 

 on mosses. 



Report of Publication Committee. 



Forty papers were accepted for publication in volume 51 of the Transactions of 

 the New Zealand Institute, and the volume was issued on the 1st September, 1919. It 

 is of average size, and contains xviii plus 548 pages (of which 89 are devoted to the 

 Proceedings and Appendix), 33 plates (one coloured), and a large number of text-figures. 

 No date appears now on the title-page but the actual date of publication (1919 in this 

 case), and the words " for the year 1918 " appearing at one place on the cover are due 

 to an oversight in proof-reading. 



No bulletins have been issued during the year. 



For the Committee. 



C. A. Cotton, Hon. Editor. 



Hon. Librarian's Report. — ^The Hon. Librarian read his report, and 

 moved, That the report be adopted. The motion was seconded by 

 Mr. Hill and carried. 



Report of the Library Committee. 



The incoming exchanges have been received, registered, and placed upon the 

 shelves. A list of those received for 1918 was prepared by a member of the committee 

 and printed in the Appendix of the Proceedings, pp. 536-39. Owing to the suspension 

 of the Smithsonian International Exchange, a number of important American publica- 

 tions were not received during 1918 and 1919, but these are now beginning to come to 

 hand. 



A few sample volumes have been bound, but the quotations received were so 

 discouraging as regards price that no further action has been taken in regard to the 

 expenditure of the £250 voted for this purpose by the Government. 



Information has recently been received from the Director of the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature that the publications mentioned in the report of this 

 committee for 1918 have now been noted for inclusion in the International Catalogue. 

 Before this letter came to hand, however, a letter from the Secretary of the Royal 

 Society was received, pointing out the difficulties in carrying out the further pubhcation 

 of the catalogue, and asking for the consideration of the position by the New Zealand 

 Institute as the Regional Bureau for New Zealand. 



