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ELECTION OF OFFICERS ron 1874.— President —Julius Haast, Ph. D., Е.В.8.; 
Vice- Presidents —Ll. Powell, M.D., G. W. Hall; Council—His Honour Mr. 
Justice Gresson, W. Montgomery, R. W. Fereday, Dr. J. 8. Coward, H. J. 
Tancred, Rev. J. W. Stack ; Hon. Treasurer—J. Inglis; Auditors—J. Palmer, 
R. Wilkin ; Hon. Secretary—C. M. Wakefield. 
His Honour W. Rolleston, B.A., was chosen to vote in the election of the 
Board of Governors for the ensuing year, in accordance with Clause 7 of the 
New Zealand Institute Act. 
Extra MEETING. 4th December, 1873. 
Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
1. “On the Birds of New Zealand" (Part IV.) by T. H. Potts, F.L.S. 
(Transactions, p. 199.) 
2. “Оп Cheimarrichthys fosteri, a New Genus belonging to the New 
Zealand Fresh-water Fishes,” by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the 
Canterbury Museum. (Transactions, p. 103.) 
3. «Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand," by Walter L. нне, 
D.Sc., F.L.S. (Transactions, р. 112.) 
4. “ List of the Lepidoptera recorded as having been found in New Zealand 
previous to the Year 1871," by R. W. Fereday, Corresponding Member Ent. 
Soc. Lond. (Transactions, p. 171.) 
Dr. Haast exhibited a skeleton of Aptornis. 
First MxEgTING. 5th March, 1874. 
Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
New members.—Hon. E. W. Stafford, Hon. J. Barton A. Acland, Rev. 
W. J. Habens, John Anderson junr., C. C. Corfe. 
The President delivered the following 
ADDRESS, 
When two years ago you kindly assented to my request to elect some other 
member of our society as your President, I thought that you would continue 
to do so at least for several years more, hoping that under those circumstances 
we should have been privileged to listen to a series of addresses for the 
opening of each session, in which the president elect would have given us, 
either the result of his own individual studies, or the experience obtained 
during the performance of his professional duties. However, whatever may 
