70 Proceedings. 



Appoint ineitt of t'oniiiiittee of Award. — On tlie motion of Dr. Hilgen- 

 dolt", Hfconded by Mr. K. Wilson, it was resolved that a committee be ap- 

 pointed to recommend the Governors of the Institute as to the award of 

 the Hector Medal and Prize. The committee for 1911 to be the Pro- 

 fessors of Biology of the four University Colleges and Mr. Speight. 

 The awards to be made in the order in which the sidjjects are herein 

 numbered. 



Committee to obtain Hector Medal . — On the motion of Mr. Petrie,. 

 seconded by Mr. James Stewart, it was resolved that a committee, con- 

 sisting of the President, Mr. Hamilton, and Professor Easterfield, be 

 appointed to arrange for preparing the Hector Medal : tlie cost not to 

 eyeeed £100. 



Report of the L'uhlication . Committee. — The following report of the 

 Publication Committee was then read : — 



The Committee begs to report that seventy-five papers were sent in for pub- 

 lication in the Transactions for 1909 [i.e., Vol. xlii). These were considered at 

 a meeting held in January, 1910, immediately after the annual meeting of the 

 Board of Governors, and, with the exception of a few that were held over for 

 further consideration, weie at once handed to the Government Printer. Sixty-three 

 papers were published in the Transactions, Vol. >:lii, two in the Proceedings for 

 1909, Part IV, and two as separate bulletins; one was rcfericd back to the author 

 for condensation, and the remainder were not reconmiended for publication. With 

 regard to two of these there was some correspondence with the author, but the 

 committee adhered to its decision, on the ground that papers that are purely con- 

 troversial and add no new facts of importance to the subject discussed are not 

 suitable for inclusion in the Transactions ; moreover, fairly full abstracts of these 

 papers appear in the Proceedings. The Transactions for the year 1909, Vol. xlii, 

 contains vi and 642 pages and 67 plates, in addition to a very large number of 

 figures included in the text ; the fourth part of the Proceedings for 1909 extends 

 from pages 91 to 160, and includes the lists of members, the New Zealand Institute 

 Acts, &c., which have hithei'to been given in the volume of the Transactions. The 

 final proofs of the Transactions were corrected about the middle of May, and the 

 volume was ready for issue early in June. The thanks of the Institute are due to 

 the Government Printer for getting the volume out at such an early date. 



A few of the papers in the Transactions are of great length, and in the opinion 

 of the committee some of them are capable of being condensed with advantage, and 

 it may be necessary in the future to recommend this course in a greater number of 

 cases than has been done in the past. In some cases, again, the papers are accom- 

 panied by a large number of photographs, some of which are not absolutely neces- 

 sary for the illustration of the paper. As these photographs have to be reproduced 

 as half-tone blocks on special paper, they add veiy considerably to the cost of the 

 volume, and it may be necessary for the future to restrict in some way the number 

 of plates allowed to each paper. It is desirable whenever possible that papers should 

 be illustrated by line drawings prepared in accordance with the instructions printed 

 for the guidance of authors of papers. Most of these can be then incorporated as 

 text-figures, and in many respects are preferable to separate plates. 



In accordance with the instructions of the Board of Governors, the committee 

 arranged for the publication of two of Major Broun's papers on New Zealand 

 Cole opt via as separate publications under the name of ■" Bulletins,"" and it hopes 

 that the example thus set may be taken further advantage of, and that other lengthy 

 and important papeis which for any reason cannot suitably be included in the 

 Transactions may be published as separate bulletins. Bulletin No. 1, " New Genera 

 and Species of Coleoptcra,'" contains 78 pages, and Bulletin No. 2, "Revision of 

 the New Zealand Byrrhidav." 26 pages and 1 plate. Both were issued on 30th 

 August, 1910. 



The first part of the Proceedings for 1910, amounting to 30 pages, was issued 

 on 10th September, 1910 ; the manuscript of the second part was sent in to the 

 Printer early in November, and, though delayed owing to pressure of other work 

 in the Printing Office, it is now ready for press, and will probably be issued before 

 the annual meeting of the Board of Governors. 



For the Transactions for 1910 (Vol. xliii) sixty-five papers have been sent in. 

 These have already been considered t<,i some extent by the Publication Committee ; 



