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HuTTON Memorial Reskaech Fund.— Statement of Accounts, 31st December, 1911. 



to 31st December, 1912. 



Gr. £ s. d. I Dr. £ s. d. 



Balance as at 31st December, I Balance . . . . . . 690 4 10 



1911 .. .. .. 600 10 10 I 



Interest, Public Trust Office 29 14 



£690 4 10 



£690 4 10 



Hector Memorial Fund. — Statement of Accounts, 31.st December, 1911, to 

 31st December, 1912. 



Gr. £ 8. d. 



Balance at 31st December, 



1911 .. .. .. 1,130 12 1 



£1,180 15 1 



Dr. £ s. (1. 



Beneficiary's Account, New 



Zealand Institute . . 150 



Interest, Public Trust Office 50 3 Balance .. .. 1,030 15 1 



£1,180 15 1 



Rector Memorial Award. — Mr. G. M. Thomson, convener of the 

 Award Committee, reported that it was the unanimous opinion of the 

 Committee that the award of the Hector Medal for 1913 should be to 

 Professor Easterfield, of Victoria College, Wellington, for his distin- 

 guished work in chemical research, especially in connection with New 

 Zealand products. 



He said this work had a direct as well as an indirect bearing on the scientific 

 knowledge, the health, and the prosperity of the community. He read a letter 

 from Professor Evans, expressing the opinion that the original intention of the 

 Trust was to make the award for work done in New Zealand, whether it had a 

 bearing upon New Zealand or not. Professor Orme-Masson agreed with this. 



The recommendation of the Hoctor Award Committee was adopted. 



Hector Deed of Trust. — It was proposed by Dr. Cockayne, seconded 

 by the Hon. H. D. Bell, That the opinion of counsel be obtained as 

 to — (1) Whether the deed of trust, which is drawn in contravention of 

 the report of the Hector Memorial Committee, advocated by the Board of 

 Governors, can be altered so as to accord therewith; (2) if not, whether 

 Uie deed or the resolution of the Board of Governors prevails as defining 

 the objects of the award. — Carried. 



Publication Committee Report. — The following annual report of the 

 Publication Committee was received : — 



The Publication Committee begs to submit the following repo)-t for the year : — 

 Fifty-five papers were forwarded for consideration; of these, forty were printed 

 in the Transactions, eight were printed in the Proceedings along with abstracts of 

 three others, two were held over, and two others were definitely declined. The 

 authors of some of the papers were requested to shorten them considerably, and 

 this was done without any serious detraction from their merit. 



A long paper by Major Broun on the New Zealand Coleoptera was divided 

 into two parts, and the first part alone printed, while the second part was reserved 

 for next year's volume, this step being taken owing to the great length of the 

 paper and the somewhat straitened finances of the Institute. The second half is 

 now in the hands of the printer. The Committee recommends that another 

 long paper by Major Broun on the same subject, already in hand, as well as others 

 to follow, should be issued in bulletin form. 



Mr. H. N. Dixon, of Northampton, has been revising the moss material col- 

 lected by the late Robert Brown, and deposited in the Canterbury Museum. 

 The first part of this work has been forwarded, and the Committee recommends 

 that this also should be published in bulletin form, and that subsequent parts, 

 as they are finished, should be issued in like manner, and paged in sequence, so 



