536 New Zealand Institute. 
The volumes now in stock are: Vol I. (second edition), 400; vol. IL, 
none; vol. III., none; vol. IV., none; vol. V., 48; vol. VI., 47; vol. 
VII., 146; vol. VIII., 18; vol. IX., 150; vol. X., 8; vol. XI., 60; vol. 
XII., 65; vol. XIII., 68; vol. XIV., 90; vol. XV., not yet fully distributed. 
From the Hon. Treasurer’s statement of accounts it will be seen that 
there is a balance in hand of £77 14s. 7d. 
The annual reports of various Government departments connected with 
the objects of the Institute under the Manager’s direction are appended. 
James HECTOR, 
Manager. 
Approved by the Board, 8rd August, 1888. 
Wa. F. Drummond JERvors, 
Chairman. 
Accounts of the New ZraLanp Institute, 1882-88. 
RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURE. 
£ 1.0 £ nd 
To Balance in hand, 8th An, By Balance due for printing 3p. 
gigs ip 5 11 10 XIV. Js 19 18 2 
Vote for 1882 - 83 . 500 0 0 Printing Vol. D PEE .. 508 0 0 
“Denti from Wellington Binding Ri si «È 9 
Philosophical Society, one- Purchase of second - hand 
sixth of annual revenue.. 28 17 6 volumes of Tenenti 
Sale of volumes 5 0 New Zealand Institute, 4 
Draft from London agents, volumes 730 
sale of volumes 8 0 0 Miscellaneous items, contin- 
gencies, etc. 10 9 1 
Balance is o TJA T 
£619 14 4 £619 14 4 
Cisa toga sal 
à ARTHUR STOCK, 
8rd August, 1883. Hon. Treasurer. 
Museum. 
The estimated number of visitors to the Museum during the year is 
86,180, of whom a large proportion visited the institution on Sunday after- 
noons. 
Natural History Collections. 
The whole of the collections of stuffed skins have been examined and 
thoroughly cleaned by the Taxidermist. No extensive additions have been 
made to this section, chiefly because it has now become impossible to dis- 
play, or even to store, such collections properly, owing to the crowded state 
of the Museum. 
Pisces.—Under this head it may be mentioned (1) that specimens of 
Retropinna richardsoni and Agonostoma forsteri, caught with a rod four miles 
up the Hutt River, were presented by the Hon. P. A. Buckley, M.L.C. ; 
