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Hutton delivered a popular lecture on "The New Darwinism," which 

 was well attended, and very highly appreciated by the public. A special 

 general meeting was held on the 6th July for the purpos^e of making a 

 slight alteration in Law VII. 



The Council has met nine times since the last annual meeting, and 

 amongst the business transacted the following items may be mentioned : 

 The laws and rules of the Institute have been revised and reprinted ; 

 the old rule, No. XL, concerning the photographic section, which has 

 ceased to exist, has been omitted. 



A resolution urging upon the Government the desirability of pro- 

 tecting the eggs as well as the adult animals of the tuatara has been 

 forwarded to the Colonial Secretary and complied with. 



All the collections presented by the late Mr. W. Maskell to this 

 Institute have been presented to the Canterbury Museum. 



The Hon. C. C. Bowen was nominated to vote in the election of 

 Governors of the New Zealand Institute. 



The number of members of the Philosophical Institute of Canter- 

 bury at the present momenc is seventy-five, as compared with seventy- 

 seven in the preceding year. 



Tne balance-sheet shows that the total receipts for the year have 

 been £60 2s. 6d., and the expenditure £63 19s. lOd., which, with the 

 balance carried forward from last year, leaves a balance in the bank 

 of £17 19s. lid. The sum of £50 Os. 7d. has been spent upon books and 

 binding. 



Additions to the library by donation and purchase have tak n 

 place as usual. Captain Hutton has succeeded Dr. Evans as honorary 

 librarian, and has generously presented the Institute with a set of 

 "Natural S-.-i- nee " complete up to date. 



It is dteply to be regretted that since the last annual meeting this 

 Institute has twice been called upon to pass resolutions of regret and 

 condolence — viz., on the occasions of the deaths of Mr. W. M. INIaskell 

 and the Rev. W. Colenso, while the Philosophical Society of Canterbury 

 in particular has lost a most vahied member by the death of Mr. C. R. 

 Blackiston, its late honorary auditor. 



The arrangement of a programme for the ensuing year, to be sub- 

 mitted to the incoming Council, has been left in the hands of the honorary 

 secretary, who has much pleasure in announcing that Professor Arnold 

 \Vall, M.A., has kindly consented to deliver a popular lecture during the 

 year, and Mr. J. S. S. Cooper an address on " Wireless Telegraphy." 

 Other arrangements v/ill he announced in due course. 



Election of Ofpicees for 1899. — President — L. Coc- 

 kayne; Vice-presidents — E. Speight, Dr. W. H. Symes ; 

 Hon. Secretary — Professor A. Dendy; Hon. Treasurer — Captain 

 F. W. Hutton; Council— T>x. Evans, H. E. Webb, E. M. 

 Laing, T. W. Naylor Beckett, J. B. Mayne, and Professor 

 Arnold Wall ; Hon. Aicditor — E. C. Bishop. 



Presidential Address. — The retiring President, Dr. W. P. 

 Evans, delivered an address on " Electricity in the Service of 

 Technical Chemistry." 



