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New Zealand Institute. 



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494 



The cost of printing Vol. XXXII. was £338 lis. 6d. for 

 494 pages, and that for the present volume (XXXIII.) 

 £384 14s. for 628 pages. This includes the preparation and 

 printing of the plates. 



From the honorary treasurer's statement of accounts it ap- 

 pears that the amount received for the year was £961 lis. 8d., 

 including the balance carried forward, and the expenditure 

 £422 15s. 4d., leaving a balance in hand of £538 16s. 4d. 



Owing to the unfortunate destruction by fire of Part V. of 

 "Maori Art," considerable delay has been caused in issuing 

 the complete work. The publication was again taken in hand, 

 and Part V. will be delivered in the course of a week or so. 



Museum. 



There have been 120 entries in the books as additions to 

 the Museum since last report, a list of which will be published 

 in due course. The whole of the cases in the Museum have 

 been cleaned and revarnished, and several important changes 

 were made in the exhibits prior to the arrival of the Eoyal 

 visitors, who inspected the collection. These changes afforded 

 more space for the display of the specimens, and the large 

 leading tickets were all renewed. 



Library. — The books in the library have been classified 

 and arranged so that they can be referred to without difficulty 

 with the assistance of the new catalogue published last year. 



Meteorological. 



The returns of the principal stations for 1900 have been 

 supplied as usual to the Registrar- General to be included in 

 his annual statistics, and the monthly rainfall returns from 

 176 stations have been regularly published in the Gazette. 

 The monthly return for vital statistics has been supplied, and 

 the weather exchange, by telegraph, is continued between this 

 colony and Australia. 



