NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



, Thirty-third Annual Eeport. 



Meetings of the Board were held on the 19th and 26th 

 November, 1900, and 6th September, 1901. 



Messrs. Tregear, Young, and Sir J. 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 as Governors of 

 the New Zealand Institute for the current year — namely, 

 Mr. S. Percy Smith, Mr. Martin Chapman, and the Hon. C.C. 

 Bo wen. 



The members now on the roll are — Honorary mem- 

 bers, 26; Auckland Institute, 156; Hawke's Bay Philosophi- 

 cal Institute, 61 ; Wellington Philosophical Society, 154 ; 

 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 72 ; Otago Institute, 

 106 ; Nelson Philosophical Society, 12 ; Westland Institute, 

 51 : making a total of 638. 



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

 (second edition), 225; Vol. V., 6; Vol. VI., 10; Vol. VII. 

 95 ; Vol. IX., 93 ; Vol. X., 123 ; Vol. XL, 23 ; Vol. XII., 25 

 Vol. XIII., 26; Vol. XIV., 48; Vol. XV., 160 ; Vol. XVI. 

 160; Vol. XVII., 162; Vol. XVIII., 128; Vol. XIX., 153 

 Vol. XX., 154; Vol. XXL, 85; Vol. XXII., 87; Vol. XXIII. 

 163; Vol. XXIV.. 167 ; Vol. XXV., 162 ; Vol. XXVL, 172 

 Vol. XXVIL, 168; Vol. XXVIIL, 173 ; Vol. XXIX., 300 

 Vol. XXX., 350; Vol. XXXI. , 400; Vol. XXXIL, 400 

 Vol. XXXIII. , not yet fully distributed. 



The volume just published (XXXIII.) contains sixty-three 

 articles, and also addresses and abstracts which appear in the 

 Proceedings ; it consists of 628 pages and twenty-three plates. 

 The following is a comparison of the contents of the present 

 volume and that for last year : — 



