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Hector Memorial Fund. — The individual members of the Board having signifiecf 

 their concurrence with the request of the Wellington Hector Memorial Committee 

 (a body acting independently of the Institute) that the Institute should assume, 

 under certain stated conditions, the custody and management of the fund, the 

 Standing Committee has given effect to the wishes of the Governors. , The report 

 of the Institute's Hector Memorial Committee, presented with this report, deals 

 fully with the subject. A deed of trust will be prepared. 



Hutton Memorial Fund. — The Committee of Award in Sydney has been in- 

 structed in the conditions under which an award may be made, and their recom- 

 mendation will be opened later at this meeting. The Standing Committee recom- 

 mends for the favourable consideration of the Board an application for a research 

 grant from the fund. 



Purchase of Back Xumbcrs of the Transactions. — The Secretary is correspond- 

 ing with the owners of certain volumes, and if negotiations are successful a number 

 of complete sets will be available for sale. 



London Agency. — The transfer of this agency to Messrs. William ^Vesley and Snn 

 has been completed, and the engagement existing with the previous agents satisfac- 

 torily terminated. 



Publications. — The cost <jf the publications — Transactions, Proceedings, and 

 Bulletins — issued last year was somewhat greater than usual, and prompts the sug- 

 gestion that there should be a closer connection between the Standing Committee 

 and the Publication Committee on the question of finance. The publication of 

 bulletins requires to be authorized and regulated. 



As before, publications have been distributed direct from Wellington to mem- 

 bers, according to the roll kept. The matter of distribution is, however, somewhat 

 bound up with the succeeding subject here dealt with, and the practice of distri- 

 bution will not be entirely uniform until that matter is settled. 



Copies of Vol. xlii of the Transactions were, in accordance with the Act, laid 

 on the table of the House of Representatives on 6th July, 1910, and of the Legis- 

 lative Council on 5th July, 1910. 



The Board at the last meeting decided to bind up the Proceedings published 

 during the year with the Transactions, but this could not be accomplished with 

 Vol. xlii, as the limited number of Parts i, ii, and iii had been distributed. The 

 Secretary was, however, able to obtain about a hundred complete sets of the year's 

 Proceedings, which were bound with Vol. xlii, these copies being supplied to tlie 

 leading libraries on the exchange list. The new rule will commence with Vol. xliii. 



Position of Incorporated Societies. — The sub-committee which was appointed 

 by the Standing Conmiittee has not been able to make any report, owing to the 

 absence from Wellington of one of the members. 



British Association in Australia in W!'/. — A resolution was passed at the last 

 annual meeting of the Board, assuring the Melbourne University and the Austral- 

 asian Association for the Advancement of Science of the Institute's sympathy 

 and support in the endeavours of those bodies to induce the British Association to 

 visit Australia. It may be possible to go further tlian this and invite as many 

 of the British delegates who can to visit New Zealand. The matter is obviously 

 one in which the Institute can only act by suggestion, and it is hoped that the 

 Government may be induced to take part in the movement. 



Resolutions having the Force of Regulation-^. — As resolved at the last annual 

 meeting, the Secretary has prepared a list of the resolutions passed by the Board 

 and Standing Committee from time to time since 1904. It is desirable that a 

 Committee be appointed to formulate these so that they may be gazetted or printed, 

 as may be decided. 



Exchange List. — The Standing Committee has added to the list the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society and the New Zealand Geological Survey. Other applica- 

 tions are held over to await the decision of the Board. 



Outlying Islands of Xeiv Zealand. — Professors Easterfield and Kirk and the 

 Secretary were appointed a sub-committee to inquire into the conditions for leasing 

 the outlying islands of New Zealand. A report from Professor Kirk is appended. 



For the Standing Committee. 



Wellington, 19th January. 1911. A. Hamilton. President. 



Committee to deal with the Aitstrtdictii Visit of the British Associa- 

 tion. — It was resolved, on the motion of Professor Beuliam, .seconded 

 by Mr. Speight, that the President (Mr. Hamilton) and Professor Eastei'- 

 field be appointed a committee to deal with the Australian visit of tlie 

 fU'itisli Association, with power to add to their number. 



