536 Froctf(/niijs. 



AxxLAL General Meeting : 27fh Octoher. 1913. 



Mr. T. King, F.R.A.S., President, in tlie chair, and twenty-eight 



members and fiiends ji re-sent. 



Annual Reporis. — The annual report and balance-sheet, the report of 

 the Hamilton Memoidal Committee, the report of the Library Com- 

 mittee, and the annual reports of the Astronomical, Technological, and 

 Geological Sections were read and adopted 



Abstract of the Annual Eeport. 



During the year there have been eight general meetings of the society, seven 

 meetings of the Astronomical, eight of the Geological, and seven of the Techno- 

 Icigical Section. 



At the general meetings seven lectures or addresses have been delivered, and 

 twenty-five papers presented, which may be classified as follows : Ethnology, o ; 

 botany, 10; geology, 9; ichthyology, 1; zoology, 4; chemistry, 2; and 1 of a more 

 general character The average attendance at the general meetings was over 



fifty. _ 



The Sections. — The Astronomical, Geological, and Technological Sections have 

 been very active, and a number of important papers have been read before them. 



Membership. — Two members of the society have died during the year, fifteen 

 have resigned their membership, four have been struck off the roll. Twelve new 

 members have been elected. The roll at present contains 169 names, including 

 those of ten life members and of seven on active service. Members on active service 

 retain the full privileges of membership (including the right to the annual volume) 

 without payment of any subscription during the time they are on active service. 



Hainilton Me//niiial. — The fund collected to provide a memorial to the late 

 Mr. Augustus Hamilton, amounting now to i'l'i'i 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 Russell, in the Bay of Islands. 



Finance. — The receipts during the year amounted to i;189 2s. 9d., and the total 

 payments to £172 18s. 2d., including £60 17s. 4:d. spent on the library. The Life 

 Sv.bscviption Fund, with accrued interest, amounts to £80 7s. Id., and the Research 

 Fund to £47 12s. 2d. These two funds are invested with the Public Trustee. A 

 sum of £122 2s. lOd. has been deposited in the Post Office Savings-bank, leaving a 

 balance of £43 8s. 8d. in the current account at the Bank of New Zealand. 



The report of the Astronomical Section shows that the Proctor Library Fund 

 in connection with the proposed Solar Physics Observatorv now amounts to 

 £80 lis. lOd. 



Astronomical Section. — The meetings have been well attended, the average 

 number of members present at each meeting being twenty-five. The total number 

 of members of the Philosophical Society who are registered as members of the 

 Astronomical Section is sixty. The observatory at Kelburn has been open to the 

 general public on fine Tuesday evenings from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. During the absence 

 of Dr. C. E. Adams, Mr. C. J. Westland, Acting Government Astronomer, has acted 

 as Director and Curator of Instruments. Some very fine photographs of star 

 clusters, nebulae, &c., have been presented to the section by Mr. A. C. Clifford, 

 and these are now hung on the walls of the ante-room. Arrangements have been 

 made with the Dunedin Astronomical Society to exchange papers of interest, and 

 two such papers have been read during the year. The credit balance of the section, 

 as shown by the balance-sheet, stands at £32 5s. 7d. 



<Jeolo//ical Section. — On two occasions since the last annual meeting the section 

 has been favoured with addresses by visiting geologists of note — Professors W. M. 

 Davis and J. P. Iddings. A considerable number of papers have been read hy 

 members, and many interesting exhibits have been made. 



Technological Section. — The active membership of the section is about fifty, 

 and an average attendance of about twenty-five has been the rule. During the year 

 nine papers were read, all of high character and interesting nature. The question 

 of a technical library in Wellington is under consideration, and there are good 

 prospects that a definite result will ensue next year, as a practicable scheme has 

 been formulated. 



Revision of Rules. — Dr. J. A. Thomson presented tlie report of the 

 Revision of Rnles Committee, and gave notice that he would move the 

 adoption of the I'ules suggested by the Committee. 



