628 Proceedings. 



Annual Meeting : IS lit Novemher, 1890. 



Dr. Belcher, President, in the cliair. 



The retiring President, Dr. Belcher, read a paper " On the 

 Dramatic Works of Ibsen." 



The annual report and balance-sheet were then read and 

 adopted. 



Abstract. 



The balance-sheet shows a balance from last year of £76 2s. Id. ; 

 subscriptions to date, £129 2s. 6d. ; making total receipts £204 7s. 4d. 

 Cash expenditure, £96 5s. 7d. ; leaving a credit balance of £97 9s. The 

 liabilities amount to £50. There is also a sum of £277 14s., fixed deposit, 

 in the bank. 



Election of Officees fok 1891. — President — Professor 

 F. B. de Malbisse Gibbons ; Vice-jn-esidents — Eev. Dr. Belcher 

 and Mr. C. W. Adams ; Council — Professor T. J. Parker, Dr. 

 Hocken, Dr. De Zouche, Dr. Scott, Messrs. F. E. Chapman, 

 Q. M. Thomson, and D. Petrie ; Secretary — A. Hamilton. 



After the business of the meeting was over, Mr. D, Brent mentioned 

 that the Otago Institute was just twenty-one years old. On the 3rd July, 

 1867, Mr. J. S. Webb, who took a very active part in the founding of the 

 Institute, convened a meeting in the long room of the Athenoaum Hall, at 

 which Dr. Hocken was also present. About three weeks afterwards a 

 meeting was held in the Provincial Council Library, at which the 

 Otago Institute was formally constituted. A list of the original members 

 showed eighty names, and on looking over it he was surprised to find 

 that twenty of them still belonged to the Institute. They were : Messrs. 

 C. W. Adams, G. M. Barr, A. Bathgate, L. O. Beal, A. Beverley, D. Brent, 

 E. Chapman, W. Fraser (Earnscleugh), Dr. Hocken, Jas. McKerrow, 

 W. Martin (C4reen Island), A. C. Purdie, E. E. C. Quick, James Rattray, 

 Hon. W. H. Reynolds, O. G. Russell, H. Skey, and Sir R. Stout. Others 

 had left the colony, but the following original members had passed away: 

 Messrs. \V. Arthur, Dr. Borrows, R. Gillies, S. Hawthorne, W. Langlands, 

 J. Macandrew, \V. D. Murison, A. C. Strode, and J. T. Thomson. Judge 

 Ward presided at the meeting to which lie had just made reference, and 

 Mr. J. S. Webb and Dr. Hocken were the first joint secretaries. 



