516 New Zealatid Institute. 



The cost of producing and printing Vol. XXXIV. was 

 £452 2s. 6d. for 645 pages and forty-two plates, and that for 

 the present volume (XXXV.) £482 lis. 6d. for 623 pages and 

 fifty- four plates. Both these volumes were entirely turned 

 out at the Government Printing Office. 



From the Honorary Treasurer's statement of accounts 

 it appears that the amount received for the year was 

 £964 Is. 3d., including the balance carried forward, and the 

 expenditure £604 12s. 8d., leavmg a balance in hand of 

 £359 8s. 7d. 



Museum. 



There have been 100 entries as additions to the Museum 

 since last report, a list of which will be published in due 

 course. The collections have been regularly cleaned and 

 arranged. 



Library .—Tlh\% is, as far as possible, being kept scientifi- 

 cally up to date. 



Meteokological. 



The returns of the principal stations for 1902 have been 

 supplied as usual to the Registrar-General to be included in 

 his annual statistics, and the monthly rainfall returns from 

 180 stations have been regularly supplied to the Gazette. 

 The monthly returns for vital statistics have been supplied, 

 and the daily weather exchange by cable is continued between 

 this colony and Australia. 



Colonial Time-ball Observatory. 



Mr. Thomas King, the officer in charge, reports as fol- 

 lows : "The work of the time service has proceeded as usual. 

 Regular observations for the determination of clock-error have 

 been taken, and exact time has been distributed throughout 

 the colony as heretofore. The clocks have maintained very 

 good rates. The time-ball at Wellington has been dropped 

 daily (Sundays excepted), and galvanometer signals have been 

 sent hourly from the Observatory in the manner described in 

 previous reports. During the stay of the relief ship ' Morn- 

 ing ' at Lyttelton, prior to her start for the antarctic regions, 

 signals were frequently transmitted to her by special telegraph- 

 wire direct from the Observatory to the officers' cabin, and the 

 vessel was thus enabled to rate her chronometers accurately 

 for some days before the beginning of her important voyage. 

 The value llh. 39m. 5'3s. E. has, since the beginning of 1903, 

 been assumed as the longitude of the Observatory in com- 

 puting time. This longitude has, of course, been for very 

 many years recognised as the correct one ; but owing to the 

 fact that the old value — viz., llh. 39m. 9'3s. E. — was re- 

 tained on the Admiralty charts it was not deemed wise to 



