NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Eepokt. 



The Board held meetings during the past year on the follow- 

 ing dates : 6th August and 17th December, 1895 ; 14th Feb- 

 ruary and 26th March, 1896. 



The retiring members from the Board, in conformity with 

 the Act, were Mr. W. T. L. Travers and Mr. E. Tregear, and 

 there was a vacancy caused by the death of the late Hon. 

 W. B. D. Mantell ; and His Excellency the Governor was 

 pleased to reappoint Mr. Travers and Mr. Tregear, and to ap- 

 point Mr. J. Young to fill the place of the late Mr. Mantell. 

 The branch societies, in accordance with clause 7 of the Act, 

 elected the following gentlemen to represent them on the 

 Board for the year, viz. : Major-General Schaw, Mr. J. McKer- 

 row, and Mr. S. Percy Smith. 



A vacancy in the roll of honorary members having occurred 

 owing to the death of Professor Huxley, the Board, on the 

 recommendation of the incorporated societies, elected Mr. 

 William Mitten, F.L.S., the distinguished cryptogamist, who 

 contributed so largely to the flora of New Zealand, to fill the 

 vacancy. 



Another vacancy has occurred in the honorary members' 

 roll, by the death of the late Professor Eiley, the eminent en- 

 tomologist, of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. 



The Institute has lost by death two distinguished mem- 

 bers, and the Board passed the following resolutions in acknow- 

 ledgment of the services they had rendered : — 



1. William Christopher Eichmond : "That the Board of 

 Governors, acting on behalf of the members of the New Zea- 

 land Institute, who represent scientific research in this colony, 

 desire to place on record their appreciation of the brilliant 

 talents of the late Mr. Justice Richmond, and of the great 

 benefits the colony has received from his untiring efforts to 

 diffuse sound philosophy by his numerous writings and lec- 

 tures, and particularly to acknowledge the powerful aid which 

 he gave towards the foundation of this Institute." 



2. Walter Baldock Durant Mantell : " That the Governors 

 of the Institute express their sense of the great loss science 

 has sustained through the death of their late colleague 



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