506 Proceedings. 



Election of Committees. — Library Committee : Dr. Thomson (convener), 

 Dr. Cotton, Mr. Andersen, and Professor Sommerville. 



Publications Committee : Professor Kirk, Dr. Cotton, Mr. J, C. Andersen, 

 Dr. Thomson, and Mr. Aston (reappointed). 



Research Grants Committee : Standing Committee and Mr. Furkert. 



Hector Award Committee : Professor Easterfield (convener), Professor 

 F. D. Brown, and Sir E. Rutherford. 



Regulations Committee : Mr. Andersen, Dr. Thomson, Mr. Eliott, and 

 Mr. Aston. 



Observatory Committee : Professors Easterfield, Farr, Marsden, Dr. 

 Cotton, Dr. Adams, and Mr. Gifford (reappointed). 



Travelling-expenses. — It was-resolved to pay travelling-expenses of the 

 members of the Board of Governors. 



Minutes. — Authority was granted to the Standing Committee to confirm 

 the minutes. 



Votes of Thanks were passed to the Palmerston North High School 

 Board for the use of the school for this meeting, and to the honorary 

 officers of the Institute for their work during the year. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE 



SCIENCE CONGRESS. 



Palmerston North, January, 1921. 



The second Science Congress of the New Zealand Institute was held at 

 Palmerston North from the 25th to the 29th January. The attendance 

 was smaller than that of the former Congress, but the standard of papers 

 and discussions was equally high, and the general expression of opinion 

 of the members participating was that the Congress was a great success. 



A very attractive booklet for the meeting was issued by the Borough 

 Council, in the form of an illustrated Municipal Year-book, with a full 

 statement of the situation, population, early history, waterworks, public 

 reserves, and municipal enterprises of the borough, and an appendix giving 

 the programme of the Science Congress, including articles on the plants 

 of the Manawatu, by Dr. L. Cockayne ; the geology of the Palmerston 

 district, by Dr. P. Marshall ; notes on the Manawatu swamps and district, 

 by Mr. R. Edwards ; and notes on the botany of the Esplanade, by Mr. R. 

 Black. This booklet will always form a useful handbook for visitors to 

 Palmerston North. 



The programme of the Congress was similar in general outlines to that 

 of the Christchurch meeting in 1919. The sectional and general meetings 

 were held in the Boys' High School buildings, the public addresses in the 

 Municipal Hall. The afternoons were devoted to excursions to the water- 

 works at Tiritea, the " Glaxo " factory at Bunnythorpe, and to a garden 

 party at the Esplanade. On Saturday a full-day excursion was made, first 

 to the Miranui flax-swamp and Messrs. A. and L. Seifert's flax-mills, and 

 later to the Mangahao hydro-electric works. The evenings were occupied 

 by the opening meeting, two public lectures, and a conversazione. 



