594 Netv Zealand Institute. 



W. B. D. Mantell. Throughout a long career of over fifty- 

 five years he did noble service to New Zealand as a public 

 official, a politician, and as a scientific investigator, and was 

 an especially active initiator of the New Zealand Institute, in 

 the control and management of which he took an active part 

 since its foundation. His name will always be associated 

 with the discovery and collection of the remains of the Moa- 

 birds, which formed so unique a feature in the fauna of these 

 isla.nds." 



The members now on the roll of the Institute are : Hono- 

 rary members, 29 ; Auckland Institute, 172 ; Hawke's Bay 

 Philosophical Society, 80 ; Wellington Philosophical Society, 

 143 ; Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 70 ; Nelson Philo- 

 sophical Society, 24 ; Otago Institute, 91 ; Westland Institute, 

 62 : making a total of 671. 



The volumes of Transactions now on hand are : Vol. I. 

 (second edition), 240; Vol. V., 18; Vol. VI., 20; Vol. VII., 

 103; Vol. IX., 105; Vol. X., 138; Vol. XL, 29; Vol. XII., 

 36; Vol. XIIL, 34; Vol. XIV., 58; Vol. XV., 168; Vol. 

 XVI., 168; Vol. XVII., 170; Vol. XVIII. , 143; Vol. XIX., 

 158; Vol. XX., 160; Vol. XXL, 91; Vol. XXIL, 92; Vol. 

 XXIIL, 168; Vol. XXIV., 173; Vol. XXV., 173; Vol. 

 XXVL, 178 ; Vol. XXVII. , 180; Vol. XXVIIL, not yet fully 

 distributed. 



This year's volume (XXVIIL), just published, contains 

 seventy-four articles, together with addresses and abstracts 

 which appear in the Proceedings. The work consists of 808 

 pages and 37 plates, besides numerous illustrations inserted in 

 the letterpress. The following gives a comparison of the con- 

 tents of the present volume with that of last year : — 



1896. 1895. 



Miscellaneous... 



Zoology 



Botany 



Geology 



Chemistry 



Proceedings ... 



Appendix 



808 742 

 The cost of printing Vol. XXVII. was £441 16s. for 742 

 pages, and that for the present volume (XXVIIL) £485 6s. 2d. 

 for 808 pages. 



The first part of Vol. I. of the standard work on Maori 

 art, which is being written for the Board by Mr. A. Hamilton, 

 is now in the press. It is devoted to Maori canoes, and is 

 illustrated by process-block printings from photographs. 



