634 Proceedings. 



5. " Descriptions of New Native Phanerogams," by D. Petrie. 



6. " Some Additions to the Flora of the Subantarctic Islands of New 

 Zealand," by D. Petrie. 



7. " Kecords of Borings at Horotiu," by J. E. Hetherington ; com- 

 municated by T>. Petrie. 



8. " The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands," by W. E. B. Oliver. 



9. " A Comparison of the Land Molluscan Faunas of the Kermadec 

 Group and Norfolk Island," by T. Iredale ; communicated by W. E. B. 

 Oliver. 



10. "A Commentary on Suter's ' Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca' " 

 by T. Iredale ; communicated by W. E. B. Oliver. 



11. " New Genera and Species of Coleoptera" by Major T. Broun. 



Annual Meeting : 22nd February, 1915. 



C. J. Parr, Esq., C.M.G., Mayor of Auckland, President, in the chair. 



Annual Report.- — The annual report and audited financial statement 

 was read to the meeting, and ordered to be printed and distributed among 

 the members. 



Abstract. 



Members. — The number of members elected during the year has been twenty-two. 

 The number of names withdrawn from the roll has been thirty-six — four from death, 

 twenty-six from resignation, and six from non-payment of subscription for more than 

 two consecutive years. There has thus been a net loss of fourteen, the number on the 

 roll having been reduced from 370 to 356. 



Among the members removed by death the Council regret to mention the names 

 of Archdeacon Walsh, who has been a frequent contributor to the Transactions during 

 the twenty-seven years he has been associated with the society, and who has made 

 many important donations to the collection of Maori antiquities in the Museum ; of 

 Mr. W. R. Bloomfield, who was lost in the disastrous wreck of the " Empress of Ireland " ; 

 of Mr. W. S. Cochrane, and Mr. E. Bond. 



Finance. — The total revenue of the Working Account, excluding the balance in 

 hand at the commencement of the year, has been £1,530 17s. 7d. Last year the amount 

 was £1,862 0s. 2d. ; but, as pointed out at the time, that sum included the exceptional 

 item of a Government subsidy for £250, in addition to arrears of interest and rents pro- 

 perly belonging to the previous year. Taking these items into consideration, it will 

 be found that the revenue for the year is not far below that for 1913-14. The amount 

 received under the head of members' subscriptions has fallen from £354 18s. to £322 7s. ; 

 and there is an apparent reduction of £37 12s. 6d. in the receipts from the Costley 

 Bequest, and of £16 10s. 8d. in the returns from the Museum Endowment, but both are 

 mainly caused by the payment of arrears in the previous year. On the other hand, 

 a new item of revenue appears in the returns from the Campbell Bequest. The expendi- 

 ture has been unusually large, amounting to £1,692 19s., as against £1,590 10s. 2d. 

 for the previous year. The increase is due to the numerous purchases made for the 

 Museum, and to the cost of the show-cases required for their exhibition. The balance 

 in hand amounts to the satisfactory sum of £218 9s. 7d. 



The position of the invested funds of the society must be regarded as satisfactory. 

 The legacy of £1,000 bequeathed by the late Sir John Campbell, paid over by the 

 Campbell Trustees during the previous year, has been suitably invested, and is now 

 yielding its full revenue of 6 per cent. A further sum of £555 has been derived from the 

 sale by the Government of certain Museum endowments, and has also been invested. 

 From these two sources the capital funds of the Institute have been raised to the sum 

 of £18,181, thus securing an increased revenue in the future of nearly £100 per annum. 



Visit of the British Association. — In last year's report it was stated that arrange- 

 ments had been made by the New Zealand Government to invite a number of the leading 

 members of the British Association to visit New Zealand after the close of the Australian 

 meeting, with the object of holding a short supplementary meeting in New Zealand ; 

 but the unforeseen outbreak of war, and the military preparations that at once became 

 necessary, compelled the Government to cancel the greater part of these arrangements, 



