Incorporated Societies. xvii. 



Extract from the Rule* of the Auckland Institute. 



1. Any person desiring to become a member of the Institute shall be 

 proposed in writing by two members, and shall be ballotted for at the next 

 meeting of the Council. 



4. New members on election to pay one guinea entrance-fee, in addition 

 to the annual subscription of one guinea, the annual subscriptions being 

 payable in advance on the first day of April for the then current year. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of 

 ten pounds ten shillings, in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



10. Annual General Meeting of the Society on the third Monday of 

 February in each year. Ordinary Business Meetings are called by the 

 Council from time to time. 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Office-bearers for 1888 : — President — Professor F. W 

 Haslarn, M.A. ; Vice-presidents — G. Hogben, M.A. ; S. Hurst 

 Seager, A.E.I.B.A. ; Hon. Treasurer— H. E. Webb, F.E.M.S. 

 Hon. Secretary — W. Dinwiddle ; Hon. Auditor — C. E. Blakiston 

 Councils- Professor Hutton, F.G.S., E. W. Feredav, F.G.S., T 

 Crook, Professor C. H. H. Cook, M.A., W. H. Symes, M.D., 

 E. M. Laing,M.A. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 



21. The Ordinary Meetings of the Institute shall be held on the first 

 Thursday of each month during the months from March to November 

 inclusive. 



35. Members of the Institute shall pay one guinea annually as a sub- 

 scription to the funds of the Institute. The subscription shall be due on 

 the first of November in every year. Any member whose subscription shall 

 be twelve months in arrear shall cease to be a member of tbe Institute, but 

 he may be restored by the Council if it sees fit. 



37. Members may compound for all annual subscriptions of the current 

 and future years by paying ten guineas. 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Office-bearers for 1888: ■President — Alex. Wilson, M.A. ; 

 Vice-presidents — F. E. Cbapman, Dr. de Zouche; Hon. Secretary — 

 G. M. Thomson, F.L.S. ; Ron. Treasurer— J. C. Thomson; 

 Council — D. Petrie, M.A., Professor Scott, C. Chilton, M.A., Dr. 

 Hocken, Eev. H. Belcher, L.L.D., Professors Parker and 

 Gibbons ; Auditor — D. Brent, M.A. 



Extracts from the Constitution and Rules of the Otago Institute. 



2. Any person desiring to join the Society may be elected by ballot, on 

 being proposed in writing at any meeting of the Council or Society by two 

 members, and on payment of the annual subscription of one guinea for the 

 year then current. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of 

 ten pounds and ten shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



