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12. All books in the Library of the Institute shall be duly entered in a catalogue, 
which shall be accessible to the public. 
13. The public shall be admitted to the use of the Museum and Library, subject to 
by-laws to be framed by the Board. 
Section III. 
14. The Laboratory shall, for the time being, be and remain under the exclusive 
management of the Manager of the Institute. 
LIST OF INCORPORATED SOCIETIES. 
e of Society. Date of Incorporation. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — ... d .. dune 10, 1868. 
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE s .. June 10, 1868. 
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF Dose RY Ra ..- Oct. 22, 1868. 
WESTLAND NATURALISTS’ AND ÁCCLIMATIZATION Socrery Oct. 22, 1868. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
OrrrcE-BrEaAnEns.— President—Sir George Grey, K.C.B., D.C.L.; Vice- 
Presidents—Right Reverend C. J. Abraham, Bishop of Wellington; His 
Honor I. E. Featherston, M.D., Superintendent of Wellington ; Council— 
W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., R. Hart, R. Pharazyn, F.R.G.S., J. Hector, M.D., 
F.R.S.; Honorary Secretary and Treasurer—R. Pharazyn. 
Extract from the Rules of the Wellington Philosophical Society. 
1. Candidates may be admitted Members of the Society on the recommendation 
Member of Council and two ordinary Members of the Society, and on the payment d: thé 
annual subscription 
5. Every WMeniber shall contribute annually to the funds of the Society the sum of 
one guinea. 
6. The annual contribution shall be paid in advance, on or before the 1st day of 
January in each year. 
7. 'The sum of £10 may be paid at any time as à composition of the ordinary annual 
payment for life. 
12. The honorary Members of the Society shall be persons who have been eminent 
benefactors to this or some other of the Australian Colonies, or distinguished patrons and 
‘promoters of the objects of the Society 
17. General meetings for business of Members of the Society shall be held in the 
evening of one day or more of each quarter (the time and place of the meeting to be fixed 
by the Council, and duly announced by the Secretary), to receive the Secretary's report, 
and to carry out the general objects and business of the Society. 
Meetings will be held during the Session of the General pee on the e wns 
evenings, commencing with the ordinary quarterly meeting of July 28 
July 28th, Tuesday (ordinary). September 15th, a 
August 25th, Tuesday. October 6th, Praed) 
The meetings will be held in the Colonial Museum, Wellingt 
