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Votes of Thanhs were accorded to — (1) The Hon. G. W. Russell, for 

 assistance rendered to the Institute during his term of office as Minister of 

 Internal Affairs ; (2) the honorary officers of the Institute, for their services 

 during the past yef^r ; and (3) to the« Standing Committee, for services 

 rendered during the year. 



Authority to confirm the minutes of the annual meeting was granted to 

 the Standing Committee. 



Resolutions of Sympathy. — That the most hearty sympathy of the Board 

 be accorded the relatives of Professor Maclaurin, late President of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



That the most hearty sympathy of the Board be accorded the relatives 

 of the late Dr. Etheridge, Director of the Australian Museum. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Since the 30th September, 1918, eight meetings have been held — the annual 

 general meeting, one special and six ordinary meetings — when papers were 

 read as follow : — 



18th December, 1918 (annual general meeting) : W. Donovan, " The 

 Distillation of Waikaia Shales " ; P. G. Morgan, " New Zealand Clays." 



30th April, 1919 : S. H. Jenkinson, " Majority and Proportional Repre- 

 sentation." 



28th May: E. K. Lomas, "Spiders"; R. L. Andrew, "Seasonal 

 Variations in the Wellington Milk-supply." 



25th June : D. Jenness, " Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918." 



23rd July : R. W. Holmes (President), " Notes on Decimal Coinage and 

 the Metric System." 



6th August (special meeting) : E. Marsden, " Gun-location on the 

 Western Front." 



27th August : R. L. Andrew, " Some Analyses of Human Milk with 

 reference to Infant Feeding " ; G. B. Bradshaw, " The Bomb Calorimeter." 



24th September : G. V. Hudson, " On some Examples of New Zealand 

 Insects illustrating the Darwinian Principle of Sexual Selection " ; R. W. 

 Holmes and A. C. Gifiord, " Mount Tutoko and the Darran Mountains." 



The average attendance has been forty. 



At the annual general meeting the annual report and audited balance- 

 sheet were adopted. 



Abstract. 



Council Meetings. — Eleven meetings of the Council have been held, when consider- 

 ation has been given to the following matters :- — 



Research Grants. — A Government grant of £2,000 was made available through the 

 New Zealand Institute in January, and applications were invited from members. The 

 following grants have since been made : Astronomical Section, £55 for apparatus for 

 astronomical research; Professor T. H. Easterfield, £200, "The Mineral Oils, Waxes, 

 and Resins of New Zealand " ; Dr. C. E. Adams, £150, " Testing of Observatory-sites " ; 

 Dr. J. Allan Thomson, £100, " The Chemical Characters of Igneous Rocks." 



An application from Dr. C. E. Adams for a grant for assistance in computing a 

 table of mathematical functions is under consideration. 



