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Hector Memorial Fund. — Statement of Account, 31st December, 1910, to 31st 



December, 1911. 



Cr. £ s. d. | Dr. £ s. d. 



Balance as at 31st December, Balance .. .. 1,130 12 1 



1910 . . . . . . 444 7 10 



Fixed deposits . . . . (319 4 



Interest .. .. 24 15 2 



Public Trust Office, interest 42 5 1 



£1,130 12 1 



£1,130 12 1 



Coleoptera. — The President detailed the steps he had taken regarding 

 the proposed publication of Major Broun's work on the Coleoptera. — 

 Approved. 



Hector Memorial Deed of Trust. — On the motion of Mr. Hamilton, 

 seconded by Dr. Petrie, the President and Secretary were authorized to 

 affix the seal of the Institute to the Hector Memorial trust deed. (See 

 Appendix, page 106.) 



Hector Medal Award. — The recommendation of the Award Committee, 

 which was received in a sealed envelope, was then read, and it was 

 unanimously resolved, That the recommendation of the Hector Medal 

 Committee, which recommended that the Hector Medal be awarded to 

 Dr. Cockayne, be adopted. 



Publication Committee Report. — This was read, and, on the motion 

 of Mr. R. Speight, seconded by Mr. A. Hamilton, it was resolved, That 

 the report of the Publication Committee be received. The report was 

 as follows : — 



Report of Publication Committee. 



The Committee begs to report that during the year sixty-nine papers in all were 

 sent in for publication in the Transactions and Proceedings ; these were duly con- 

 sidered by the Committee, and were dealt with as follows : Six were published in the 

 Proceedings — i.e., one in Part I, two in Part II, and two in Part III ; one lengthy 

 paper was reserved for separate publication ; three papers were not recommended for 

 publication ; the remainder were published in the Transactions as fifty-seven papers, 

 in three cases two papers dealing in each case with the same subject having been 

 combined under one title. Notwithstanding that many of the papers were consider- 

 ably cut down at the request of the Committee, both as regards text and illustra- 

 tions, Vol. 43 of the Transactions proved to be rather larger than in the previous 

 year, filling (380 pages, with 32 plates and a very large number of text figures. The 

 Transactions were issued on the 1st July, 1911 ; the first part of the Proceedings, 

 pages 1 to 30, was issued on the 10th September, 1910 ; the second part, pages 31 

 to 58, on the 18th January, 1911 ; and the third part, pages 59 to 128, on the 12th 

 May, 1911. 



The Committee regrets that, owing to financial reasons, it has not yet been 

 found possible to print the paper that was reserved for separate publication. 



In accordance with the resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Board ot 

 Governors in January, 1911, approving of the policy of printing short scientific 

 papers in the Proceedings, six papers were printed in the Proceedings, 1911, Part I ; 

 this part, comprising 33 pages, was issued on the 30th August, 1911. Part II is 

 now in the Printer's hands, and in it two short papers are being published. 



The Committee desires to emphasize again the desirability of having the scale 

 of charges for authors' reprints definitely fixed and printed, so that the probable 

 cost of additional copies may be readily obtainable. This step was considered and 

 approved by the last meeting of the Board of Governors, but up to the present no 

 schedule of charges has been furnished. 



With a view to diminishing the cost of the Transactions without interfering 

 with its value as a scientific publication, the Committee wishes to affirm the principle 

 that the use of photographs, unless of excellent character, should be discouraged, 

 unless they serve to illustrate more satisfactorily the features which the author 



