WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 
Annuat Mretinc, 13th December, 1882. 
J. Giles, President, in the chair. 
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL RE 
is the Sixteenth Annual Report of the nai Its financial position is con- 
sidered sey there being a credit balance of £20 14s. 
he number of members on the roll is 90, showing an E of 10 on the roll for 
1881. 
During the year there have been twelve committee meetings called and one special 
meeting. 
A meeting of the Institute was held on the 2nd of March, when a paper was read by Dr. 
Bakewell * On some Difficulties of Darwinism," there was also one read by the same gentle- 
man ‘ On the Fallacies of Evolution," being a continuation of his former paper. 
One hundred and ninety-one new books have been added to the Bee which makes 
2,276 volumes in the library at present. 
The visitors to the Publie Reading Room have been considerably more numerous than 
in the previous year, owing chiefly to the large influx of miners to the new rush at Rimu ; 
and your committee intends applying to the Harbour Board and Borough and County 
Councils for subsidies to supplement the funds of the Institute. 
The committee has much pleasure in acknowledging donations to the Library and 
Museum and in thanking the donors. 
Exection or Orricers rog 1883 :—President—W. A. Spence; Vice- 
President—T. O. W. Croft; Hon. Treasurer—J. P. Will; Secretary— 
Richard Hilldrup. 
