464 Proceedings. 



On the motion of Mr. Eliott, seconded by Professor Kirk, it was resolved, 

 That the unexpended portions of all Government research grants be con- 

 tinued to the grantees for the coming year. 



Hutton Research Grant. — An application from Miss Mestayer for a grant 

 of £10 towards work on New Zealand Mollusca was granted on the motion 

 of the Hon. G. M. Thomson, seconded by Professor Easterfield. 



Hector Award Committee's Report. — The President then opened the 

 recommendation of the Hector Award Committee, which was to the effect 

 that the award should be made this year to Dr. P. W. Robertson. Professor 

 Easterfield, in moving the adoption of the report, gave the committee's 

 reasons for the selection of Dr. Eobertson. The motion was seconded by 

 Professor Segar and carried. 



Puhlication Committee's Report. — The report of the Publication Com- 

 mittee was adopted on the motion of Dr. Cockayne, seconded by Dr. J. A. 

 Thomson. On the motion of Dr. Chilton, seconded by Dr. J. A. Thomson, it 



was resolved, That the words " for the year " be omitted from the 



title of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 



Report of Publication Committee. 



Thirty-two paper.s were accepted for publication in vol. 50 of the Traumctiotts 

 oj the New Zealand Infititute, and the volume was issued on the loth July, 1918. It 

 contains xii + 392 pages (of which 68 are devoted to the Proceedings), 35 plates, and 

 numerous text-figures. 



No bulletins were issued during the year. 



A circular was sent out by the Editors to the Secretaries of the incorporated 

 societies requesting that the manuscripts of papers intended for pubhcation in the 

 Transactions should be sent forward as early as possible. A number of papers for 

 vol. 51, received early as a result of this request, are already in the hands of the Govern- 

 ment Printer, and we hope that the publication of the volume will thus be expedited. 



As it seems desirable that papers read at the general meeting of the Institute, in 

 February, should be printed in the forthcoming volume (vol. 51), the committee 

 recommends that the volume be described as "for the year 1918-19," instead of 

 " for the year 1918," subsequent volumes to be for 1919-20, &c. Apart from the special 

 circumstance of the inclusion of papers read at the general meeting, this description 

 would be correct, as the volume always contains the report of the annual meeting of the 

 Board of Governors. It might help also to stop the practice of misquoting the dates 

 of volumes of the Transactions, which is almost universal in manuscripts submitted 

 for publication. For the Committee. 



Leonard Cockayne, I tj tt..-, 

 C. A. Cotton, , ^°»- ^^^'^' 



tors. 



Catalogue of Fishes. — On the motion of the Hon. G. M. Thomson, seconded 

 by Professor Segar, it was resolved, That this meeting of the Board of 

 Governors re-urges upon the Government the necessity of preparing and 

 publishing a catalogue of New Zealand fishes as a work of national import- 

 ance, and that this work should be undertaken at as early a date as possible. 



Library Committee^ s Report. — On the motion of Dr. J. A. Thomson, 

 seconded by Dr. Chilton, the report of the Library Committee was adopted. 



Report of Library Com-^httee. 



As no funds have been available for the purpose, little has been done in the 

 library beyond recciWng, registering, and placing on the shelves the incoining 

 periodicals. A list of the serial publications received by the library during 1917 was 

 prepared by a member of the Committee, and was printed in the Ap2Jcndix to the 

 Proceedings, vol. 50, pp. 381-85. For the Committee. 



i'. A. Cottok. 



