Thirteenth Anniial Meeting. 527 



The report and balance-sheet of the Wanganui Philosophical Society has not 

 yet been received. 



Memorial to the late Mr. Hamilton. — The Hamilton Memorial Committee 

 reports that the fund collected for the memorial to the late Mr. Augustus Hamil- 

 ton, amounting at present to £122 2s. lOd., is deposited in the Post Office Savings- 

 bank. Arrangements are now in progress for the erection of a suitable monolith 

 over the grave at Eussell, Bay of Islands. 



Stock of Transactions. — The Parliamentary Librarian having intimated that 

 he can no longer store the immense stock of Transactions, some 15,000 volumes, 

 the Standing Committee decided to circularize all public libraries in New Zealand 

 asking if they would be willing to accept, as a donation, partial sets of those volumes 

 of which the Institute possesses such a large supply. The Parliamentary Librarian 

 has kindly consented to help in the clerical work of issuing the circulars, of which 

 as many as four to five hundred may be needed. The only conditions it is at 

 present contemplated to impose on the recipients are that the freight charges shall 

 be paid by the receiving body, and that the volumes shall become the property of 

 that body, and not be disposed of. According to the decision of the Standing 

 Committee, inquiries were made, and as a result eighty replies have been received, 

 seventy of them accepting and ten refusing the conditional offer of the Standing 

 Committee. It is now for the annual meeting to decide what further steps shall 

 be taken in the matter. 



29th January, 1916. D. Petrie, President. 



Hamilton Memorial Fund. — Professor Easterfield explained why it 

 had been found necessary to depart from the original intended form of 

 the memorial. 



Hector Award for 1916. — -Professor Seaiar proposed, and Mr. G. M. 

 Thomson seconded, That the action of the Standing Committee in sup- 

 plying information to the Hector Award Committee be confirmed. — 

 Carried. 



The President then opened the recommendation of the Committee 

 of Award received from Professor Carslaw in a sealed envelope, and 

 announced that the Committee had selected Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S. 

 The recommendation was adopted. 



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

 adopted, as follows: — 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



The Publication Committee begs to submit the following report for the year : — 



Sixty-four papers were sent in for the consideration of the Committee, and, of 

 these, fifty-eight were published in the "Transactions of the New Zealand Insti- 

 tute," vol. 47, the others being withdrawn or declined. Of those finally accepted 

 many were much condensed at the request of the Committee, and the number of 

 illustrations accompanying them was very greatly reduced. In a few cases the 

 preparation of the papers and the arrangement of the figures for publication gave 

 far more than the usual amount of work and trouble. 



Volume 47 of the Transactions was issued on the 12th July, 1915, being some- 

 what later than usual owing to the cause just mentioned. It contains 704 pages. 

 12 plates, and a large number of text figures. 



Bulletin No. 1, Part IV, on New Zealand Coleoptera, by Major T. Broun, 

 was published on the 17th February, and contains 79 pages of text. A further 

 instalment of MS. on the same subject had been received early in the year, and 

 at the last annual meeting of the Board of Governors was referred to the Publica- 

 tion Committee for inquiry as to cost of publication, &c. An estimate has been 

 received from the Printer, but owing to the state of the finances of the Institute 

 the question of publication is held over for decision at the annual meeting. 



Two lots of MS. by Mr. H. N. Dixon for the continuation of Bulletin No. 3. 

 on New Zealand Bryology, have been received, and estimates of the cost of publica- 

 tion obtained for consideration at the annual meeting. The MSS. by Major Broun 

 and Mr. Dixon are in safe keeping with the Government Printer. 



At the last annual meeting the Committee was authorized to make arrangements 

 for the publication of Dr. Mortensen's proposed report on the New Zealand 

 Echinodermata, but Dr. Mortensen only recently reached Copenhagen, and no 

 report has yet been received from him. 



