540 Proceedings. 



Hutton Award Committee s Report. — The report of the Committee (Mr. 

 W. H. Twelvetrees, Professor Benham, and Dr. Cockayne) was then 

 opened, and the recommendation that the Hutton Medal be awarded to 

 Professor P. Marshall was adopted. It was resolved that the presentation 

 of these two medals should be made at some public meeting. 



Publication Committee's Report.- — The report of the Publication Committee 

 was discussed by Dr. Cockayne, Honorary Editor, who spoke highly of the 

 assistance rendered by Dr. C. A. Cotton, Joint Honorary Editor, now 

 absent in Europe. The report was adopted on the motion of Dr. Cockayne, 

 seconded by Mr. G-. M. Thomson. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



At the end of 1915 the Honorary Editor, Professor C. Chilton, resigned his posi- 

 tion, and on the 28th January, 1916, Dr. L. Cockayne was appointed Honorary Editor 

 and Dr. C. A. Cotton, Joint Honorary Editor. 



Sixty -nine papers were offered for publication, and of these fifty-six were accepted 

 for the Transactions by your Committee, two were recommended to be published as 

 bulletins, and the remainder were withdrawn, held over for the time being, or declined. 



Volume 48 of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute was issued on the 16th 

 October, 1916. It contains 598 pages (of which no less than 75 are devoted to the 

 Proceedings), 29 plates, and a great many text-figures. 



The late appearance of the above volume was due to the following causeB : 



(1) Urgent work at the Government Printing Office connected with war matters, 

 especially the production of the National Register, taking precedence of all else ; 



(2) Parliament meeting a month earlier than usual ; (3) no Editor being appointed 

 after Professor Chilton's resignation until the end of January, 1916. 



Besides the annual volume of Transactions, the publication of four bulletins was 

 considered by your Committee. One, by Major T. Broun, on " Coleoptera," was 

 ordered to be proceeded with at once, since a grant of £50 from the Hutton Fund had 

 been voted by the Board of Governors for this purpose. Unfortunately, special printing 

 in connection with the war hindered the work being proceeded with, but it is expected 

 to be taken in hand early in 1917. The three other bulletins were held over for the 

 time being on account of lack of sufficient funds for their production, since they would 

 have cost over £150. 



Cost of Printing tlie Proceeding*.— k proposal that the affiliated societies 

 should be required to pay the cost of printing their respective Proceedings, 

 proposed by Dr. Allan Thomson, seconded by Dr. Hatherly, was lost. 



Notice of Motion.- — Professor Kirk gave notice that he would move 

 that the regulation— 5 (a), 1— referring to the publication of Proceedings be 

 rescinded, and that the following regulation be agreed to : — 



"(a.) The publications of the Institute shall consist of: (1.) Such 

 current abstract of the Proceedings of the societies for the time being 

 incorporated with the Institute as the Board of Governors deems desirable." 



Date of Publications.- — On the motion of Dr. Hilgendorf, seconded by 

 Professor Marshall, it was reserved, That the Publication Committee be 

 authorized to arrange for the publication of authors' copies in advance of 

 the publication of the volumes of Transactions, and for the printing on the 

 title-page of each paper of the date of receipt by the Editor and the date 

 of issue by the Printer. 



Bulletins— On the motion of Mr. D. Petrie, seconded by Dr. Cockayne, 

 it was resolved, That a set of the bulletins published each year be forwarded 

 to all societies en our exchange list. 



Report of the Library Committee. — The adoption of the report of the 

 Library Committee was moved by Dr. Thomson, Honorary Librarian, and 

 carried. 



