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The last instalment due on the moa's egg in the Museum having 

 been paid to the Council during this session, the egg is now the property 

 of the Otago University. 



Your Council has nominated Mr. James McKerrow as its repre- 

 sentative on the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and 

 has forwarded the names of the following gentlemen as honorary mem- 

 bers for any vacancies which may occur in the list : Dr. George S. Brady, 

 P.R.S., Durham College of Science, author of papers on New Zealand 

 Entomostraca ; Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., Prosector of the Zoological 

 Society of London, who has worked on New Zealand Annelids ; George 

 0. Sars, Professor of Zoology in Christiana, for work on New Zealand 

 Crustacea. 



The following books have been added to the library of the Institute 

 during the session: Benham, W. B. " Platyhelmia " ; Cambridge 

 Natural History: — Beddard, " Mammalia," and Gadow, "Amphibia and 

 Reptilia"; Christian, "The Caroline Islands"; Cole and Johnstone, 

 " Pleuronectes " ; English Dictionary, Murray, 2 vols.; Flower and 

 Lydekker, "Mammals"; Keane, "Man, Past and Present"; 

 Kent, W. Saville, "The Naturalist in Australia"; Lloyd, Morgan, 

 "Animal Behaviour"; Moore, "To the Mountains of the Moon"; 

 Packard, " Lamarck, his Life and Letters " ; Skeat, " Malay Magic." 



The following books are now under order: Ratzel, "History of 

 Mankind"; Meakin, Bridget, "The Moors"; Scientific Memoirs, 

 edited by Dr. J. S. Ames, 15 vols. ; Thomson, Basil, " Savage Island" ; 

 the Gilbert Club, " William Gilbert, of Colchester, on the Magnet," &c. 



The balance-sheet shows that the total receipts for the year were 

 £135 13s. lid., and the expenditure £63 5s. 9d. The Assets Account 

 shows that the sum of £450 is now on deposit, and that the bank balance 

 amounts to £51 19s. 2d. 



Election of Officers for 1903. — President — A. Hamil- 

 ton ; Vice-presidents — Professor Benham and George M. 

 Thomson; Hon. Secretary — Dr. P. Marshall ; Hon. Treasurer — 

 Willi Fels ; Council — A. Bathgate, C. W. S. Chamberlain, 

 F. R Chapman, J. S. S. Cooper, James C. Thomson, 

 D. Waters, and Dr. Hocken ; Hon. Auditor — D. Brent. 



The retiring President, Professor Benham, then read his 

 address on " The Evolution of Life." 



Papers. — 1. " The Geology of the Eock - phosphate 

 Deposits of Clarendon, Otago," by Professor James Park. 

 (Transactions, p. 391.) 



2. " On a Stone Eelic found at Orepuki, Southland," by 

 A. Hamilton. (Transactions, p. 113.) 



