NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Twenty-fifth Annual Eepokt, with a Memoeandum 



THERETO. 



Meetings of the Board were held during the past year on 

 the followmg dates : 30th August, 1892 ; 11th January, 13th 

 February, and 19th May, 1893'. 



The following members were elected by the incorporated 

 societies as Governors of the Institute, in conformity with 

 the Act: Mr. J. McKerrow, Mr. S. Percy Smith, and Sir 

 Walter Buller. 



The nominated members who retired from the Board in 

 conformity with clause 6 of the Act are the Hon. Mr. Robert 

 Pharazyn, the Hon. Mr. Mantell, and Mr. W. T. L. Travers. 

 His Excellency had reappointed the Hon. Mr. Mantell and 

 Mr. W. T. L. Travers, and appointed Mr. E. Tregear in the 

 place of the Hon. Mr. Pharazyn. 



Since the publication of last report the Institute has lost 

 one of its distinguished honorary members by the death of 

 Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. 



The members now on the roll of the Institute are : 

 Honorary members, 29 ; ordinary members — Auckland Insti- 

 tute, 187; Wellington Philosophical Society, 147; Philo- 

 sophical Institute of Canterbury, 75 ; Otago Institute, 106 ; 

 Westland Institute, 70 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society, 

 116; and Nelson Philosophical Society, 35 : making a total of 

 765. 



The volumes of the Transactions now in stock are : Vol. I. 

 (second edition), 255; Vol. V., 22; Vol. VI., 23; Vol. VII., 

 112; Vol. IX., 114; Vol. X., 144; Vol. XL, 35; Vol. XII., 

 40 ; Vol. XIII., 40 ; Vol. XIV., 63 ; Vol. XV., 177 ; Vol. XVI., 

 175; Vol. XVII., 178; Vol. XVIIL, 154; Vol. XIX., 166; 

 Vol. XX., 168 ; Vol. XXL, 98 ; Vol. XXIL, 98 ; Vol. XXIIL, 

 178 ; Vol. XXIV., 180; Vol. XXV., not fully distributed. 



The volume (XXV.) just published was issued in June, 

 and contains seventy-sis articles, together with addresses and 

 abstracts of papers which appear in the Proceedings. The 

 volume contains 612 pages of letter-press and 55 plates. The 



