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fauna for Dr. Chilton and for Major Broun ; and from Dr. Hilgendorf for 

 a grant of £10 for apparatus required for researches on artesian wells in 

 Canterbury. On the motion of Professor Easterfietd, seconded by Mr. G. M. 

 Thomson, M.P., the applications were granted. 



Hutton Memorial. — On the motion of Mr. Speight, seconded by Dr. 

 Cockayne, it was resolved, That grants from the Hutton Memorial Fund 

 may be made to approved individuals for some specified research, and that 

 a committee be set up, consisting of Professors Chilton and Marshall and 

 Dr. Cockayne, to make suggestions to this Board, and that such suggestions 

 be considered when applications for grants are being considered by the 

 Board. 



On the motion of Professor Easterfield, seconded by Mr. G. M. Thomson, 

 it was further resolved, That the Institute draw the attention of the local 

 societies to the existence of the Hutton Research Fund, and request that 

 the attention of the members of the local branches be directed to the con- 

 ditions. 



Hector Memorial Fund. — The legal opinion of Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., 

 on the declaration of trust deed, and a letter from the Deputy Public 

 Trustee, dated 27th January, 1914, were read. On the motion of Pro- 

 fessor Farr, seconded by Professor Marshall, the matter was referred to 

 the Standing Committee, with power to act. 



Hector Memorial Award. — The report of the Award Committee was 

 received in a sealed envelope. The President announced that the Com- 

 mittee recommended the medal should be awarded to Mr. Elsdon Best, of 

 the Dominion Museum, Wellington, for his researches on the ethnology of 

 New Zealand. On the motion of Mr. G. M. Thomson, seconded by Pro- 

 fessor Kirk, the recommendation of the Committee was adopted. 



Publication Committee Report. — The following report of the Publication 

 Committee was received : — 



Publication Committee Report. 



The Publication Committee begs to submit the following report for the year : — 



Seventy papers were forwarded for consideration ; of these, fifty-two were pub- 

 lished in the Transactions (Vol. 45), and two were published in abstract in the Proceed- 

 ings ; one was published in the "Journal of the Polynesian Society " ; several of the 

 others were withdrawn, and the rest were declined. The Committee regrets that owing 

 to the straitened finances of the Institute it was not possible to publish some papers 

 that had been sent in, requiring a considerable number of illustrations. 



Volume 45 of the Transactions was issued on the 9th June, and contains 490 pages 

 of text and 17 plates (one coloured), besides a large number of illustrations in the text. 



Bulletin No. 3, Part f , " Studies in the Bryology of New Zealand," by H. N. Dixon, 

 M.A., F.L.S., of Northampton, England, was issued on the 30th June. It contains 

 29 pages of text and 4 plates, which were printed from blocks prepared by West, New- 

 man, and Co., in England. The MS. for a second part of the bulletin, containing the 

 continuation of Mr. Dixon's valuable investigations on the New Zealand mosses, has 

 been recently received. 



The two papers on New Zealand Coleoptera by Major Broun, the publication of 

 which as Bulletins was authorized at last annual meeting of the Board of (iovernors, 

 were sent to the printer early in the year, but owing to pressure of other work have 

 not yet been published. Major Broun has forwarded this year another long paper on 

 the same subject, which the Committee suggests should be issued uniform with the 

 others in bulletin form. 



Fifty-five papers have been received for the next volume of the Transactions, and 

 a considerable number of these have already been sent on to the printer. The quantity 

 of matter contained in these papers seems to be less than the average of past years. 



