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Incorporated. Societies. xvii 
HAWKE BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1876.—President—His Honour J. D. Ormond; Vice- 
President—The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu; Council—W. Colenso, 
J. M. Gibbes, H. R. Holder, S. Locke, J. A. Smith, W. I. Spencer, F. W. 
C. Sturm; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer—W. Colenso. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1877.—President—His Honour J. D. Ormond; Vice- 
President—The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu; Cowncil—W. Colenso, 
J. M. Gibbes, H. R. Holder, S. Locke, J. A. Smith, W. I. Spencer, 
F. W. C. Sturm; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer—W. Colenso. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Hawke Bay Philosophical Institute. 
3. The annual subscription for each member shall be one guinea, payable in advance 
on the first day of January in every year. 
4. Members may at any time become life members by one payment of ten pounds ten 
shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 
(4.) The session of the Hawke Bay Philosophical Institute shall be during the winter 
months, from May to October, both inclusive; and general meetings shall be held on the 
second Monday in each of those six months, at 8 p.m. 
