NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Thikty-second Annual Bepokt. 



Meetings of the Board were held on the 20th February and 

 4th September, 1900. 



Messrs. W. T. L. Travers, T. Mason, and Sir James 

 Hector retired from the Board in compliance with the Act. 

 and were all renominated by His Excellency the Governor. 

 The following gentlemen were elected by the incorporated 

 societies to represent them on the Board for the current 

 y ear — v i z . ; Messrs. S. Percy Smith, Martin Chapman, and 

 the Hon. C. C. Bowen. 



To the list of honorary members are added the names of 

 Lord Avebury, Dr. J. G. Agardh, and Mr. George Massee, 

 elected at the beginning of the year for distinguished service 

 in connection with scientific work relating to New Zealand. 



The members now on the roll are — Honorary mem- 

 bers^; Auckland Institute, 153 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical 

 Society, 59 ; Wellington Philosophical Society, 144 ; Philo- 

 sophical Institute of Canterbury, 70 ; Otago Institute, 107 : 

 Nelson Philosophical Society, 16 ; Westland Institute, 60 : 

 making a total of 636. 



The volumes of Transactions now on hand are — Vol. I. 

 (second edition), 230; Vol. V., 7; Vol. VI., 12; Vol. VII. 

 98 ; Vol. IX., 95 ; Vol. X., 125 ; Vol. XL, 25 ; Vol. XII., 29 

 Vol. XIIL, 29; Vol. XIV., 50; Vol. XV., 163; Vol. XVI. 

 162; Vol. XVIL, 162; Vol. XVIII. , 130; Vol. XIX., 154 

 Vol. XX., 154; Vol. XXL, 87; Vol. XXIL, 89; Vol. XXIII. 

 163; Vol. XXIV., 167; Vol. XXV., 163; Vol. XXVI. , 172 

 Vol. XXVIL, 170; Vol. XXVIII. , 175; Vol. XXIX., 400 

 Vol. XXX., 400; Vol. XXXL, 450; Vol. XXXIL, not yet 

 fully distributed. 



The volume last published (XXXIL) contains fifty-three 

 articles, and also addresses and abstracts which appear in the 

 Proceedings. The volume consists of 494 pages and twenty- 

 six plates. The following gives a comparison of the contents 

 of the present volume and that for last year : — 



