NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Twenty-sixth Annual Beport. 



Meetings of the Board were held on the following dates : 

 11th July, 1893, and 15th February and 18th July, 1894. 



The members elected, in conformity with the Act, by the 

 incorporated societies as Governors of the Institute are Mr. 

 S. Percy Smith, Mr. James McKerrow, and Major-General 

 Schaw, C.B. 



The members who retired from the Board, in conformity 

 with clause 6 of the Act, are the Hon. Mr. Mantell, Mr. W. 

 T. L. Travers, and Mr. E. Tregear; and these gentlemen have 

 all been reappointed by His Excellency the Governor. 



The vacancies caused in the roll of honorary members by 

 the death of Sir Bichard Owen and Professor Van Beneden 

 have been filled by the election of Professor Thiselton-Dyer, 

 M.A., C.M.G., F.B.S., Director of the Boyal Gardens, Kew, 

 and the Bev. Bobert Henry Codrington, D.D., author of 

 " Melanesian Languages," &c. 



The members now on the roll of the Institute are : 

 Honorary members, 30 ; ordinary members — Auckland Insti- 

 tute, 179 ; Wellington Philosophical Society, 134 ; Philo- 

 sophical Institute of Canterbury, 66 ; Otago Institute, 111 ; 

 Westland Institute, 67 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 

 94 ; Nelson Philosophical Society, 21 : making a total of 702. 



The volumes of Transactions now in stock are : Vol. I. 

 (second edition), 250; Vol. V., 20; Vol. VI., 23; Vol. VII., 

 110; Vol. IX., 112; Vol. X., 142; Vol. XL, 33; Vol. XII., 

 40; Vol. XIII.,38; Vol. XIV., 62; Vol. XV., 173; Vol. XVI., 

 174; Vol. XVIL, 176; Vol. XVIIL, 150; Vol. XIX., 163; 

 Vol. XX., 162; Vol. XXL, 96; Vol. XXIL, 96 : Vol. XXIIL, 

 175; Vol. XXIV., 178; Vol. XXV., 180; Vol. XXVL, not 

 yet fully distributed. 



The volume (XXVL) just published was issued in June, 

 and contains seventy-three articles, together with addresses 

 and abstracts which appear in the Proceedings. The volume 

 contains 730 pages of letterpress and 54 plates. The following 

 is a comparison of the contents of the present with those of 

 last year's volume : — 



