NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
FIFTEENTH ÁNNUAL Report. 
Tur Board held meetings on the following dates :—8th August, 25th October, 
1882; 15th January and 20th March, 1883. 
The members elected under clause 7 of the Act are: The Hon. Mr. 
Rolleston, Mr. J. McKerrow, and Mr. Martin Chapman. The following 
gentlemen were elected honorary members of the New Zealand Institute : 
Sir William Thomson, F.R.S.; Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., C.B.; and 
Mr. R. L. Ellery, F.R.S., —there now being twenty-seven honorary 
members. 
The members now on the roll of the Institute are : 
Honorary members =. Ki s yis gst | 
* Ordinary members— 
Auckland Institute ^... iu da ox BAD 
Hawke's Bay Philosophieal Society xit p O 
Wellington Philosophical Society  ... ss v7 289 
Westland Institute .. ics ion MM 
Philosophical Institute of Onion "A .. 168 
Otago Institute .. eos i e 1.::0278 
Southland Tagliata kx aes DR ae ne DN 
1,234 
The printing of Volume XV. was commenced on the 10th January and 
finished early in April, the first issue of the volumes being made about the 
17th May. The volume contains sixty-two articles, also Presidents’ 
Addresses and abstracts of papers, which appear with the Proceedings 
and Appendix. ‘There are 586 pages of letter-press and 40 plates. 
The following is a division of the contents of the volume for comparison 
with that of last year :— 
1883. 1882. 
Pages. Pages. 
Miscellaneous ae sai 5400. 800 
Zoology ... m SCOPI i. ¿ADO 144 
Botany 124 104 
Chemistry — 16 
Geology id SA yan A o MO 52 
Proceedings io. sn oe ici MO 54 
Appendix 50 40 : 
686 610 
