Hutton Memorial Fund. 669 



Award of the Hutton Memorial Medal. 



1911. Professor W. B. Benham, D.Sc, F.E.S., University of Otago— 

 For researches in New Zealand zoology. 



1914. Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., F.L S. — For researches on the 

 ecology of New Zealand plants. 



Grants from the Hutton Memorial Research Fund. 



1915. (1.) To Dr. C. A. Cotton — £15 as a contribution towards his 

 travelling-expenses in an investigation of the physiographic features of 

 the New Zealand coast." 



(2.) To Mr. W. R. B. Oliver — £15 to defray expenses of travelling 

 and apparatus for a visit to Lord Howe Island undertaken in November, 

 1913. 



HECTOR MEMORIAL RESEARCH FUND. 



Declaration of Trust. 



This deed, made the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred 

 and fourteen, between the New Zealand Institute, a body corporate 

 duly incorporated by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908, of the one 

 part, and the Public Trustee of the other part : Whereas by a declara- 

 tion of trust dated the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand 

 nine hundred and twelve, after reciting that the New Zealand Institute 

 was possessed of a fund consisting of the sum of ,£1,015 10s. 2d., held 

 for the purposes of the Hector Memorial Research Fund on the terms of 

 the rules and regulations therein mentioned, which said moneys had been 

 handed to the Public Trustee for investment, it was declared (inter aha) 

 that the Public Trustee should hold the said moneys and all other moneys 

 which should be handed to him by the said Governors of the Institute 

 for the same purpose upon trust from time to time, to invest the same 

 in the common fund of the Public Trust Office, and to hold the principal 

 and income thereof for the purposes set out in the said rules and regula- 

 tions in the said deed set forth : And whereas the said rules and regu- 

 lations have been amended by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute, 

 and as amended are hereinafter set forth : And whereas it is expedient 

 to declare that the said moneys are held by the Public Trustee upon the 

 trusts declared by the said deed of trust and for the purposes set forth 

 in the said rules and regulations as amended as aforesaid : 



Now this deed witnesseth and it is hereby declared that the Public 

 Trustee shall hold the said moneys and all other moneys which shall be 

 handed to him by the said Governors for the same purpose upon trust 

 from time to time to invest the same in the common fund of the Public 

 Trust Office, and to hold the principal and income thereof for the pur- 

 poses set out in the said rules and regulations hereinafter set forth : 



And it is hereby declared that it shall be lawful for the Public 

 Trustee to pay, and he shall pay, all or any of the said moneys, both 

 principal and interest, to the Treasurer of the said New Zealand Insti- 

 tute upon being directed to do so by a resolution of the Governors of 



* This grant has been surrendered hy Dr. CoSton. 



