Incorporated Societies. xvii. 
4, Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of ten pounds ten 
shillings in lieu of future annual subscription 
(4.) The session of the Hawke’s Bay soglio Institute shall be during the winter 
months from May to October, both inclusive; and general meetings shall be held on the 
second Monday in each of those six months, at 8 p.m. 
SOUTHLAND INSTITUTE. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1883 :— President —J. T. Thomson, C.E., F.R.G.S. ; 
Vice-president—Rev. P. W. Fairclough; Secretary and Treasurer—J. C. 
Thomson; Council—Dr. Galbraith, Messrs. Carswell, Denniston, Hamilton, 
Robertson, Scandrett. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1884 :—President—J. T. Thomson; Vice-president— 
Mr. Denniston; Secretary—W. S. Hamilton; Treasurer—W. R. Robertson ; 
Council—Dr. Galbraith, — Scandrett, — Webber, J. T. Martin, — Carswell, 
J. B. Greig. 
NELSON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1884:—President—The Bishop of Nelson; Vice- 
presidents--Dr. L. Boor, A. S. Atkinson; Secretary—Dr. J. Hudson; 
Treasurer—J. Holloway; Council —The Hon. J. C. Richmond, J. Meeson, 
M. Fearnley, J. Park, Col. Walcott. 
Extract from the Rules of the Nelson Philosophical Society. 
4. That members shall be elected by ballot. 
6. That the annual subscription AE nee one guinea, 
7. That the sum of ten guineas ma position of tl l subscripti 
16. That the meetings be held ai 
23. That papers read before the Society shall be immediately delivered to the Secretary. 
