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pleasure that a vote for £500 has been passed by Parliament in the supplementary esti- 

 mates. 



It now behoves all concerned to make renewed efforts to obtain some £90 additional 

 in subscriptions, in order that the full amount of the Government subsidy may be earned 

 before the vote lapses on the 31st March. 1910. 



One thousand pounds will then be available for investment, which will yield enough 

 interest to found some research prize or scholarship, as may hereafter be decided by a 

 future conference. Yours, &c., 



Thomas H. Easterfield, Chairman. 



The President, New Zealand Institute, Wellington. 



The report was discussed at length in committee. On resuming, Pro- 

 fessor Easterfield moved, " That the report be received." 



Dr. Farr moved, as an addition, " That the thanks of the Board of 

 Governors be given to the committee for their efforts in the matter." Mr. 

 M. Chapman seconded the motion, which was carried. 



It was resolved, on the motion of Professor Benham, seconded by Mr. 

 K. Wilson, " That this Institute advises the Hector Memorial Committee 

 to approach the Government to obtain the promised grant on the sum at 

 present in their hands." 



Dr. Cockayne moved, " That the Hector Memorial Committee be asked 

 to draw up a provisional set of rules and regulations regarding the Hector 

 Memorial Fund, and submit same to the Board of Governors of the New 

 Zealand Institute." Mr. Petrie seconded and Professor Easterfield sup- 

 ported the motion, which was carried. 



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

 Committee was read by the Hon. Editor, Mr. G. M. Thomson, as follows : — 



I have to report that for session 1909 fifty-three papers were sent in to me for pub- 

 lication in the Transactions, and that of these forty-five were passed by the Publication 

 Committee, and were printed in Vol. XLI. Of the remainder, two by Professor Eenham 

 were withdraAvn, and were published along with other reports in the results of the " Nora- 

 Niven " Trawling Expedition ; one of Mr. Hamilton's was printed in the Proceedings ; 

 and the other five were held over or retinned to the societies which forwarded them. 

 I would again j'oint out tha^t the onus of recommending papers for publication should, 

 in the first instance, be exercised by the societies before which they are read. Papers 

 which are only restimes of other works, and were delivered as popular lectures, should 

 not be sent to the Editor. 



In accordance with the resohition passed at the last annual meeting, Vol. XLI,- 

 as the first of a new series, was published in royal 8^0. size. The committee has also 

 cai-ried into effect the resolutions come to at the annual meeting of the Institute on the 

 30th January, 1908, and h<T.s had the Proceedings published in ]>amphlet form during 

 the year. The change was accompanied with some sUglit inconvenience at first to Secre- 

 taries of affiliated societies, biit yoin- committee believes that the result will be instru- 

 mental in causing more general interest to be taken in tlie work of the Institxite. 



The new volume of Transactions contains xiv and 472 jaages and thirty-two plates,, 

 and the three parts of the Proceedings already publislied contain ninety pages, as against 

 xvi and 608 pages and thirty-four plates in Vol. XL. 



The plates in the new volume were distributed in the text — a miich more satis- 

 factory arrangement for authors f.nd readers alike than the former j'lan of binding them 

 all at the end of the volume. There are also manj^ m.oie small illustrations and cuts 

 in the text, and the committee consider that authors might take more advantage of this 

 method of iUustrating their papers. 



The cost of printing and publication of the new volume and parts of Proceedings 

 has been considerably increased by increasing the size of the new series, but the cost 

 of the Proceedings is in part due to the incorporation of the ])resent year's work. The 

 whole cost of printing Vol. XL was £388 13s. The cost of Vol. XLI was £391 9s. : and 

 of the Proceedings— Part I, £16 ; Part II, £14 ; Part III. £13. 



The complete proof of Vol. XLI was passed by the Editor early in May last, but 

 owing to a misunderstanding with the Government Printer as to sending volumes out,, 

 it was late in July before members received their copies. 



G. M. Thomson, Editor. 



