Incorporated. Societies. Xv. 
5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of ten pounds ten 
shillings, in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 
10. Annual General Meeting of the Society on the third Monday of February in each 
year. Ordinary Business Meetings are called by the Council from time to time. 
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1885 :— President —Dr. W. H. Symes; Vice-presidents 
—A. D. Dobson, T. Crook; Hon. Treasurer—H. R.Webb ; Hon. Secretary— 
C. Chilton; Auditor—C. R. Blakiston; Council—Professor von Haast, 
Professor Hutton, Professor Bickerton, E. Dobson, G. Hogben, R. W. 
Fereday. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 
21. The Ordinary Meetings of the Institute shall be held on the first Thursday of each 
month during the months from March to November inclusive. 
35. Members of the Institute shall pay one guinea annually as a subscription to the 
funds of the Institute. The subseription shall be due on the first of November in every 
year. Any member whose subscription shall be twelve months in arrear, shall cease to 
be a member of the Institute, but he may be restored by the Council if it sees fit. 
37. Members may compound for all annual sabootipiions of the current and future 
years by paying ten guineas. 
OTAGO INSTITUTE. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1885 :—President—Professor Scott, M.D.; Vice- 
presidents—Donald Petrie, M.A., F. R. Chapman ; Hon. Secretary—Professor 
Parker; Hon. Treasurer—J. C. Thomson ; Council—R.Gillies, M.H.R., W. 
Arthur, C.E., Professor Mainwaring Brown, M.A., P. Goyen, J. R. Wilkin- 
son, M.A., G. M. Thomson, F.L.S., Dr. Hocken. 
Extracts from the Constitution and Rules of the Otago Institute. 
2. Any person desiring to join the Society may be elected by ballot, on being proposed 
in writing at any meeting of the Council or Society by two members, and on payment of 
the annual subscription of one guinea for the year then current. 
Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of ten pounds and 
ien Pos in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 
8. An Annual General Meeting of the members of the Society shall be held in 
January in each year, at which meeting not less than ten members must be present, 
otherwise the meeting shall be adjourned by the members present from time to time, 
until the requisite number of members is present. 
(5.) The session of the Otago Institute shall be during the winter months, from May 
to October, both inclusive. 
WESTLAND INSTITUTE. : 
OFFICE-BEARERS FoR 1885 :— President— W. A. Spence; Vice-president— 
T. O, W. Croft; Treasyrer—J, P. Will; Secretary—Richard Hilldrup. 
