Incorporated Societies. xvii 
25. Members of S Institute shall pay two guineas annually as a subscription to the 
funds of the Institu 
27. Members on compound for all annual subscriptions of the current and future 
years oe paris thirty guineas. 
mbers shall have the privilege of reading before the Institute papers co ntaining 
ar if experiments, observations, and researches, conducted by themselves, on subjects 
within the ten of the Institute. 
47. Every book, pamphlet, model, plan, drawing, specimen, eges or collection, 
presented is or purchased by the Institute, shall be placed in the Museum of the Institute. 
66. That from and after the 1st of July, 1868, the Institute shall devote one-third of 
its annual revenue in or towards the formation of some local public museum or library. 
WESTLAND NATURALISTS' AND ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY. 
Orricr-Brarers.—President—The Hon. J. A. Bonar; Vice-President— 
The Venerable Archdeacon Harper; Committee—R. Abbott, J. Aylmer, 
S. Beswick, B. Clapcott, G. G. Fitzgerald, J. Frew, G. W. Harvey, 
J. Heawood, G. Mueller, J. Rochfort, G. S. Sale, S. M. South; Treasurer 
and Secretary—Malcolm Fraser. 
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Extract from the Rules of the Westland Naturalists’ and Acclimatization Society. 
2. The objects of the Society shall be to promote the PRSES of natural history, 
especially with reference to this portion of New Zealand ; to f a museum for the 
collection and preservation of botanical, zoological, and geologien! s oom: to acc! 
tize plants and animals; and to communicate with, and exchange with, other kindred 
societies. 
3. The Society shall consist —First, of life members, i.e. persons who have at any one 
time made a donation to the Society of £5 or upwards, or persons who, in reward of special 
services rendered to the Society, have been unanimously elected as such by the Committee, 
or at the general half- Lora meeting. Second, of members who pay two guineas the first 
year and one Ss h subsequent year. Third, of members paying smaller sums, not 
less than te i 
4. The pus shal be managed by a Committee elected from the Society, and con- 
cal of a President, a ogee a Treasurer and Secretary, and twelve members, to 
be chosen out of Classes 1 a 
13. The Committee shall have power to mr and determine all matters directly 
or indirectly affecting its interest, and to make s by-laws as may in their opinion be 
necessary e management of the Society, Pa such by-laws are not repugnant to 
these rules. 
14. One-third of the annual revenue of the Society shall be applied in procuring boo 
objects of natural history or of scientific interest, for the permanent benefit of the Mai 
and of the community. 
BY AUTHORITY : GEORGE DIDSBURY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER. 
