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Award for 1913. — The Committee of Award -- Professors Orme-Masson, F. D. 

 Brown, Evans, and Mr. G. M. Thomson, M.P. (convener) — have forwarded their 

 recommendation in a sealed envelope, to be opened at the annual meeting on the 

 29th January, 1914. The Hector Memorial Declaration of Trust has been duly 

 executed by the Institute and the Public Trustee, and deposited with the latter. 



Hiitton Memorial Fund. — The last award was made in 1911, and, unless under 

 exceptional circumstances, the medal may not be awarded oftener than once in 

 every three years. The next award may therefore be made in 1914, the Com- 

 mittee appointed to recommend a recipient being Professors David and Benham 

 and Mr. Maiden. No applications for grants from the fund have been received 

 during the year. 



Dr. Chilton reports that, following on his former report of the expenditure of 

 a grant from the fund, he has had several additional drawings prepared, some of 

 which have been used in papers already published ; that he has been working 

 out some Antarctic Amphipoda, and, as a result, has been able to clear up several 

 points in x-egard to New Zealand species. • 



Publications of the In-ititute. — Copies of Vol. 44 of the Transactions for 1911 

 vere laid on the tables of both Houses of Assembly on the 2nd July, 1912. The 

 volume was posted to every member of the Institute entitled to it during the week 

 ending 10th July, 1912. The Secretaries of incorporated Societies of the Institute 

 are requested to see that the full postal addresses of members are supplied to the 

 Secretary. The Institute cannot be expected to supply additional volumes of 

 Transactions when the originals have been lost owing to faulty or incomplete 

 addresses supplied. 



Proceedings : At the last annual meeting it was resolved that the publication 

 of the Proceedings should be discontinued in the event of the Government declin- 

 ing to increase the statutory grant. The receipt by the Institute of an additional 

 grant for the year has necessitated that the matter shall be further considered. 

 Mr. Hamilton has given notice to move, " That the publication of the Proceedings 

 of the New Zealand Institute be continued in the annual volume, and not pub- 

 lished separately, and the Editor be requested to severely edit the publication." 



Finance. — The efforts of the Standing Committee, which have been ably 

 seconded by Messrs. G. M. Thomson and A. Myers, Ms. P., to obtain an increase 

 in the annual grant derived from the Government have been at last successful : 

 an additional £250 was placed upon the supplementary estimates this year, and 

 that sum has now been received by the Institute. It has been found impossible, 

 in the present unsatisfactory condition of the library, to determine what books 

 are owned by the Institute and what by the Museum and Wellington Philosophical 

 Society. It is hence not possible to prepare a complete statement of assets. Any 

 estimate of the value of the assets would, moreover, be of such a vague nature as 

 to be practically valueless. A statement of liabilities will, however, be prepared 

 in addition to the usual statement of receipts and expenditure. 



The attention of the Standing Committee has been called by the Treasurer 

 to the excessive cost of some papers in the Transactions. It was resolved. That 

 after 1913 the Publication Committee submit to the Board of Governors at the 

 annual meeting an estimate from the Government Printer of the cost of publishing 

 each paper selected for the annual volume. 



British Associatio7i Australasian Meeting, 191^. — The Institute's Committee 

 was not reappointed at the last annual meeting, but the British Association Recep- 

 tion Committee, on which the Institute is well represented, is carrying on the work 

 of (u-ganizing a visit to New Zealand by some of the British Association members 

 at the Australasian meeting, as well as by a number of Canadian and American 

 men of science. The meeting in New Zealand will, it is anticipated, be held in 

 September, 1914. 



Exchange List. — The Committee was not reappointed at the last annual meet- 

 ing of the Board, but the Standing Committee has carried out the recommenda- 

 tions of the late Committee (Messrs. Hamilton and Easterfield), as follows : Sixty 

 recipients of the Institute's Transactions on the B revised list of the Committee's 

 report have been circularized, and informed that the Institute could not continue 

 to send the annual volumes unless something was received in exchange. Of these 

 sixty, some twenty have replied, and after discussion the Standing Committee 

 adopted, with some alterations, the Librarian's recommendations, the result being 

 that some forty-five names will be removed from the list of those who now receive 

 the volume. 



Formulation of Rules and Regulations. — The Committee was not reappointed 

 at the last annual meeting of the Board. It was not found possible to carry out 

 the wish of the Board to gazette the new seal of the Institute. 



