xiv Incorporated Societies. 
LIST OF INCORPORATED SOCIETIES. 
NAME OF SOCIETY. DATE OF INCORPORATION, 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SocrETY : : - 10th June, 1868 
AUCKLAND Institute - - - - 10th June, 1868. 
PHILOSOPHICAL Institute or CANTERBURY - - - 22nd October, 1868. 
Oraco [INSTITUTE - d - - 18th October, 1869. 
NELSON ÁSSOCIATION FOR THE Proxorios « OF EE 
AND InpustRY : 23rd Sept., 1870. 
WESTLAND INSTITUTE - - . - 21st December, 1874. 
Hawke Bay PHILOSOPHICAL Institute - a - 81st March,- 1876. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1878 :—President— Thomas Kirk, F.L.S.; Vice- 
presidents—J. Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E., A. K. Newman, M.B., M.R.C.P. ; 
Council—James Hector, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S., J. C. Crawford, F.G.S., 
W. T. L Travers, F.L.S., Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.L.8., C. Rous Marten, 
F.R.G.S., F.M.8., F. W. A. Skae, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Martin Chapman ; 
Auditor—Arthur Baker; Secretary and Treasurer—R. B. Gore. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1879 :— President —A. K. Newman, M.B., M.R.C.P.; 
Vice-presidents—Dr. Hector, Martin Chapman; Council—W. L. Buller, 
C.M.G., Sc.D., etc., C. R. Marten, EF. W. Frankland, 8. H. Cox, F.C.S., 
F.G.S., Hon. G. Randall Johnson, W. T. L. Travers, F.G.S., T. Kirk, 
F.L.8.; Auditor—Arthur Baker; Secretary and Treasuref —R. B. Gore. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Wellington Philosophical Society. 
6. Every member shall eontribute annually to the funds of the Society the sum of 
one guinea. 
6. The annual contribution shall be due on the first day of January in each year. 
7. The sum of ten pounds may be paid at any time as a composition for life of the 
ordinary annual payment. 
- 14. The time and place of the General Meetings of members of the Society shall be 
. fixed by the Council and duly announced by the Secretary. 
