NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 
OF 
THE PRESIDENT, 
HIS EXCELLENCY SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, 
G0,MiG., O.D., E10: 
DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, AT THE 
ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD ON THE 4th. OCTOBER, 1884. 
Plates I.-V. 
GENTLEMEN ,— 
When I had the honour of presiding at the annual meeting in 
1883, I chose as the subject for the inaugural address a brief review 
of the history of the New Zealand Institute, and of some of the 
advances made in the fields of science and literature during the 
previous year. I do not propose on the present occasion to follow 
the same course. Indeed, the annual volume of the Transactions 
and Proceedings has been so long in the hands of members that the 
time for commenting on the papers it contains is past. I will only 
remark that the Institute is to be gs uer. on the resuscitation 
of the Nelson Philosophical Society. 
Before entering on my subject this evening, however, I wish to 
make mention of one or two of the great men who have passed away 
during the last twelve months. 
By the lamented death of Dr. von HocnsrETTER the Institute has 
` lost one of its honorary members, and another link with the early 
history of the colony has been severed. In his able work on the 
general and natural history of New Zealand, he has left behind him 
not only a noble memorial of his labours during the six years he 
spent here, but also a volume which will be of permanent interest to 
the people of this country. 
The name of Epwarp SansrNE, who has lately been gathered to 
his fathers at the ripe age of ninety-five, seems to carry us back to a 
