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PEOCEEDING8 



OF THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE 



1913. 



ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Wellington, Friday, 30th January, 1914. 



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

 Institute was held in the Parliamentary Buildings on Friday, the 30th 

 January, 19H, at 10.30 a.m. 



Present : Professor Charles Chilton, President (in the chair), Dr. L. 

 Cockayne, F.R.S., Mr. C. A. Ewen, Professor Easterfield, Professor C. C. 

 Fair, Dr. Hatherly, Mr. H. Hill, Professor Kirk, Professor Marshall, Mr. 

 D. Petrie, Mr. R. Speight, Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. G. M. Thomson, M.P., 

 Dr. J. Allan Thomson, Professor von Zedlitz, and Mr. K. Wilson. 



Changes in the Representation. — -The Secretary announced the changes in 

 the representation — viz., Professor von Zedlitz replacing Mr. Young and 

 Dr. Thomson the late Mr. Hamilton as the Government nominees ; Pro- 

 fessor Easterfield, as representative of the Wellington Philosophical Society, 

 replacing Mr. Martin Chapman ; and Dr. Hatherly, representative of the 

 Wanganui Philosophical Society, replacing Mr. Hesse. 



Roll. — -The Secretary then called the roll. 



Apologies for Non-attendance. — Apologies were received from the Hon. 

 H. D. Bell, K.C., Minister of Internal Affairs, and from Mr. A. H. Tumbull. 



The. late Mr. A. Hamilton. — The following resolution was, on the motion 

 of the President, seconded by Mr. G. M. Thomson, unanimously carried : 

 The Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute desires to place on 

 record its sense of the loss sustained by the cause of science through the 

 death of the late Augustus Hamilton, for ten years Director of the Dominion 

 Museum, and a valued member of this Board from the date of its formation. 

 Mr. Hamilton was interested in many branches of scientific research, but it 



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