Philosopkical Institute of Caiitcrbiiry. 637 



The balance-sheet for the period from the 1st January, 1903, to the 

 31st October, 1903, shows that £42 10s. has been received for members' 

 subscriptions, £23 4s. 3d. has been spent in the purchase of books and 

 periodicals for the library, and £10 lis. 9d. for binding completed volumes. 

 The credit balance on the 31st October was ±76 14s. 9d., but this includes 

 £50 from Captain Hutton for the purchase of 100 copies of the '• Index 

 Fauna- NovtB-Zealandi;e."' The No. 2 Account, "Life Members' Sub 

 scriptions," shows a credit balance of £82 (Is. 2d., the interest on which at 

 3^ per cent, accrued on the 21st November, 1903. 



The number of members of the Institute is eighty-five and two asso- 

 ciates, and the average attendance at the meetings of the past year has 

 been thirty-nine. 



Six addresses (enumerated above) and twelve papers have been read 

 before the Institute during the year. The papers may be classified as — 

 zoology, 8 papers ; botany, 2 : and geology, 2. 



Election of Officers fok 1904. — President — Professor 

 Charles Chilton, D.Sc. M.A., M.B., etc. ; Vice- Preside7its— Mr. 

 J. B. Mayne. B.A., and Mr. E. Speight, M.A., B.Sc. ; Honorary 

 Secretary — Dr. Coleridge Farr, A.M.I.C.E. : Honorary Trea- 

 surer — Professor Charles Chilton, M.A.,M.B., D.Sc.; Gonncil — 

 Mr. E. M. Laing. M.A., B.Sc. Captain F. W. Hutton, F.E.S., 

 President New Zealand Institute. Dr. W. P. Evans, M.A., 

 Dr Cockavne, Mr. E. G. Hogg, M.A., Mr. A. E. Flower, 

 M.A., B.Sc. 



