496 Proceed in r/s. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



Eight general meetings of the society were held during the year 1918, at 

 which the following papers and addresses were read : — (24th April) '"Control 

 of Milk-supply," by Mr. R. L. Andrew : (22nd May) " Discovery and 

 Rediscovery of Wellington," by Mr. Elsdon Best : (26th June) " Notes on 

 the Rate of Growth of New Zealand Native Trees," by Mr. E. Phillips 

 Turner : (24th July) Presidential address, " The Need for Research,"' bv 

 Mr. G. Hogben ; " New Species of Mollusca from various Dredgings taken 

 of¥ the Coast of New Zealand, the Snares Islands, and the Bounty Islands," 

 by Miss M. K. Mestayer ; '" Stephen Island, a Natural Sanctuary for Land- 

 animals," by Dr. J. Allan Thomson : (28th August) " Mountains." by Dr. 

 C. A. Cotton : (25th September) " The Nature of X-ray Spectra," bv 

 Professor H. Clark : (18th December) '' The Distillation of Waikaia Shales/" 

 by Mr. W. Donovan ; " New Zealand Clays," by Mr. P. G. Morgan ; 

 '' Graphs showing the Rate of Growth of New Zealand Trees," by Mr. 

 E. Phillips Turner ; " The Edible Eish, &c., of Taui)o-nui-a-Tia," bv the 

 Rev. H. J. Fletcher. 



At the annual meeting, which was held on the 18th December (having 

 been postponed owing to the epidemic), the annual report and balance- 

 sheet w^ere adopted. 



Abstract of Ajjnual Report. 



Me'iihership. — The roll of members as on the 20th September, 1918, stood us 

 follows : Life members, 10 ; ordinary members, 164, of whom 23 are on active service. 

 Thirteen new members were elected during the year, six members resigned, and four 

 members died, of whom two were on active service. 



Roll of Honour. — The following names were added to the roll of lionour during the 

 year : Sergeant-major L. J. Comrie and Dr. W. M. Thomson. 



Grant to the Astronomical Section. — During the year a sum of £8 l(is. 6d. was paid 

 OR behalf f)f the Astronomical Section for mounting the King telescope, and the section 

 was further authorized to incur a liability to an amount not exceeding £20 for the 

 <'urrent year. 



Ra)n<ai/ Memorial Fnnd. — The C'ouucil gave a sum of live guineas to the Ramsay 

 Memorial Fund. 



Hainilloii Memorial Prize. — -Pursuant to a recommendation of the Committee of 

 the Hamilton Memorial Fund that the balance of the fund should be invested by the 

 New Zealand Institute, and that each year one half of the interest should be added to 

 the i)rincipal. the other half of the interest to be devoted to a jirize to be known as the 

 Hamilton ])tize, the Council at its meeting on the 28rd .January adopted the recom- 

 mendation, and formulated a number of conditions relating to the award of the prize. 

 The i(>solution was comminiicated to the New Zealand Institute, the Hoard of Governors 

 of wliich lias authorized its Standing Committee to co-operate with the Wellington 

 Fhilosophical Society in arranging the terms upon which the balance of the Hamilton 

 .Memorial Fund ,sii(nild be handetl over in trust to the New Zealand Institute. 



Fellowship of the Xetr Zealand Institute. — Resolutions of the Committee of the 

 Board of Governors on the subject of the fellowship on the New Zealand Institute were 

 considered, and were afterwards ajiproved in an amended form. 



R(s,iirch fJrant. — An announcement was received from the Secretary of the New 

 Zealand Institute that the sum of £.">0(l had been voted to the Institute as a grant for 

 research work. The announcement was circulated anu)ng the members of the society. 

 Advice was received from the New Zealand Institute that tiic ajjjilication from Professor 

 Rastorfield for £'ii} for carrying out investigations on the wax content of brown coals, 

 .; ml froii) Messrs. I ,a Trobe and .^danis for a ftuther €7.") in Mid of the cost of construction 



