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incm()ii;il I he i;rtMt sei'vices leiideiod to science and to the coiony liy the late 

 gentleman. At the fifth annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute, in January, 

 U'OS, a eoiiuiiittee of the Institute was appointed " to eo-operate with the other 

 ooniniittees already moving in the direction of collecting funds foi' a memorial." 

 This committee consisted of Professor Benham, "Slv. M. ChapiiutTi, J)r. ('ockayne. 

 Professor Easterficld, Messrs. T. (Uil, D. Petrie, and T{. Speight. The Wellington 

 Philosophical Society elected a committee consisting of Messrs. (!. V. Hudson 

 and A. Hamilton, and the Canterbury Philosophital institute a committee consist- 

 ing of Dr. Chilton. Dr. C. C. Farr, Messrs. Speight and Waite. Committees 

 foruied outside of the Institute were the Wellington Hector Memorial Committee, 

 ccmsisting of Sir Robert Stout, Mr. M. Chapman, Mr. A. (,'rawford, Professor 

 Easterfield, Dr. J. M. Mason, with Mr. T. King as Secretary. This was the chief 

 committee, to which the other committees remitted the funds collected by them. 

 The Dunedin Hector Memorial Committee consisted of Professor Benham, Dr. 

 Cul(|uhoun, Dr. Hocken (Secretary), Piofessor Marshall, Professor Scott, Professor 

 Park, and .Mr. Ci. M. Thomson. By .May, 19()S, the chief committee had in hand 

 £T.W, the greater portion of which had been collected in Wellington Province. In 

 .July, 1908, the Standing Committee of the Institute passed the following resolu- 

 tion : •' That Dr. J. M. Mason be informed that the Standing Committee is of 

 opinion that the several Hector Memorial Committees should issue a joint circular 

 inviting further subscriptions to the fund, and undertaking that the final allocation 

 of the fund shall not l)e decided on until tln' subscribers have been duly consulted 

 u)>on the suliject. On 4th February, 1909, a conference of the delegates from the 

 \arious commit'.ees was held, and it was agreed to issue a joint c-ircular appealing 

 foi' more funds. The ciicular was issued on 1st March. 190!). and resulted in a 

 considerable augmentation of th(^ funds. 



The Institute's Wellington committee was not leappointcd at the sixth annual 

 meeting in Febiuary, 1909. 



'N'our committee was not appointerl until the annual meeting in .January, 1910. 



On 1st March, 1910, the Government having promised the fund a pound-foi- 

 pound subsidy up to £500, the Wellington Hecto)- Memorial Committee issued a 

 furthei' circular calling for additional subscriptions before -'Jlst Mai'ch. Subscrip- 

 tions more than enough to enable the (lovernment subsidy to \m\ earned were quickly 

 received. The subscribers were then appraised of the proposal of the Wellington 

 Hector Memorial Committee to hand over the funds to the Institute in the follow- 

 ing circular (dated 18th April, 1910), a copy of which was sent to every snb- 

 serilxu' : — 



Circulur to Suffcrihci-^. 



I have the honour to state that there is now £1,04.5 10s. 2d., which includes 

 a subsidy of £500 received from the Government, standing to the credit of 

 the fund. 



The following terms under which the Hector Memorial Coumiittee is pre- 

 pared to hand over the management of the fund to the Governors of the New 

 Zealand Institute have been approved by the committee : — 



1. The fund shall be investivl in such securities as are proper for the invest- 

 ment of trust funds. 



2. The Governors shall, out uf the income arising from the fund, pi§)vide 

 an annual prize, to be called the " Hector Prize," which shall have for its 

 object the encouragement of scientific research within New Zealand. 



.3. The prize shall be awarded by rotation for the following subjects : 

 liotany, chemistry, geology, physics (including mathematics and astnmomv), 

 and zoology. 



4. In each year the prize shall be awarded to that investigator who, 

 working within the Dominion of New Zealand, shall, in the opinion of the 

 Governois of the Institute, have done most towards the advancement of that 

 branch of science to which the prize is in such year allotted. 



."). The r;overnors of the Institute shall draw up regulations giving effect 

 to the foregoing scheme, and may, if they think proper, provide for the 

 appointment from time to time of a committee of experts to give advice in 

 thv awarding of the prize. 



Whilst not wishing to lay down any hard-and-fast rule, it is the desire of 

 the Hector Memoiial Committee that the recipient of the prize devote the same 

 towards defraying the expenses of further investigation, or of the publication 

 of lesearches already completed. 



Egbert Stout, 



On behalf of the Wellington Hcctoi' Mniiorijil 



Committee. 



