LIST OF INCORPORATED SOCIETIES. 
NAME OF SOCIETY. DATE OF INCORPORATION. 
WzrLmeroN Pumosorpnican SoctETY - . - 10th June, 1868. 
ÅUCKLAND ÍIwsrtTUTE - - - - . - 10th June, 1868. 
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE or CANTERBURY : - 22nd October, 1868. 
Oraco INSTITUTE . - - - : - 18th October, 1869. 
Westianp IwsTITUTE - - . i . - 21st December, 1874. 
Hawke’s Bav PHILOSOPHICAL Institute - - - 81st March, 1875. 
SouTHLAND Institute - - - - - - 21st July, 1880. 
Netson Puinosorntcan Socrery — - - 
20th December, 1888. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1885.—President—A. K. Newman, M.B., M.R.C.P.; 
Vice-presidents—R. Govett, G. W. Grabham, M.D.Lond. ; Council. —T. King, 
W. T. L. Travers, FELS- RE Hutchinson, M.R.C.S., Martin Chapman, 
James Hector, M.D., Dr. Buller, C.M.G.. F.R.S., Hon. G. R. Johnson, 
M,L.C. ; Secretary and Treasurer—R. B. Gore; Auditor—H. F. Logan. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Wellington Philosophical Society. 
5. Every member shall contribute 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 asa 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, 
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1885 :—President—J. A. Pond; Vice-presidents— 
H. G. Seth Smith, Rt. Rev. W. G. Cowie, D.D.; Council—G. Aickin, 
Professor F. D. Brown, B.Sc., Hon. Colonel Haultain, E. A. Mackechnie, 
J. Martin, F.G.S., J. M. Moore, M.D., T. Peacock, M.H.R., Rev. A. G. 
Purchas, M.R.C.S.E., S. P. Smith, F.R.G.S., T. Steel, Professor A. P, 
Thomas, F.L.S.; Secretary and Treasurer—T. F. Cheeseman, FLB. 
F.Z.8.; Auditor —T. Macffarlane. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Auckland Institute, 
1, Any person desiring to become a member of the Institute, shall be proposed in 
writing by two members, and shall be ballotted for at the next meeting of the Council. 
4. New members on election to pay one guinea entrance-fee, in addition to the 
annual subscription of one guinea, the annual subscriptions being payable in advance on 
the first day of April for the then current year, 
