NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



THIETY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



The tkird annual meeting cf the Board of Governors under the 

 Act of 1903 was held in the ColonipJ Museum, Wellington, 0]i 

 the 25th January, 1906, and was attended by sixteen members. 



The representatives of the Governor in Council and of the 

 various incorporated societies during the year were as follows r 

 By the Governor in Council — Messrs. A. Hamilton, J. Young. 

 E. Tregear, and J. W. Joynt ; Auckland Institute — Professor 

 Thomas, Mr. J. Stewart ; Wellington Philosophical Society — 

 Professor Easterfield, Mr. M. Chapman ; Philosophical Institute 

 of Canterbury — Professor Chilton, Dr. Farr ; Otago Institute — 

 Professor Benham, Mr. G. M. Thomson ; Hawke's Bay Philo- 

 sophical Institute — Mr. Hill ; Nelson Institute — Dr. Cockayne ; 

 Westland Institute — Mr. T. H. Gill ; Manawatu Philosophical 

 Society — IVIr. W. Welch. Messrs. Joynt and Tregear retired in 

 December and were reappointed by the Governor in Council, 

 and Mr. W. J. O'Donnell was appointed in the place of Mr. W. 

 Welch, who has left the colony. 



At the annual meeting of the Institute the following officers 

 were elected : President — Sir James Hector, M.D., F.R.S. ; 

 Treasurer — Mr. J. W. Joynt, M.A. ; Editor of Transactions and 

 Librarian— Mr. A. Hamilton ; Secretary— Mr. T. H. Gill, M.A.. 

 LL.B. 



The honorary members of the New Zealand Institute are- 

 twenty-five. 



The members now on the roll of the various incorporated 

 societies are as follows : Auckland Institute, 164 ; Wellington 

 Philosophical Society, 106 ; Philosophical Institute of Canter- 

 bury, 146 ; Otago Institute, 111 ; Hawke's Bay Philosophical 

 Institute, 56 ; Nelson Institute, 32 ; Westland Institute, 46 ; 

 Manawatu Philosophical Institute, 46 : total, 732. 



Transactions. — The volumes of Transactions now on hand 

 are— Vol. I (second edition), 317; Vol. V, 33; Vol. VI. 24; 

 Vol. VII, 146; Vol. IX, 217; Vol. X, 139; Vol. XI, 394;. 



