894 New Zealand Institute. 
the printer in obtaining the necessary number of hands to insure its com- 
pletion at an earlier date. Its greatly increased bulk was also a cause of 
its not being produced sooner. 
The volume contains 638 pages and 80 plates. Ninety papers are 
printed either in the Transactions or Proceedings, which are by 46 different 
authors. The space taken by each section of the volume is as follows :— 
Pages. 
Miscellaneous ... ws ves i vs ies 195 
Zoology ... ¥¥e ae ame 6K aa six 137 
Botany ... Ss ae ea os wa a 46 
Chemistry Bo oe ies 335 a wt 30 
Geology = _ ae “ie Fs be 57 
Proceedings... =i ies ty ot Bik 101 
Appendix 26 at oe vs 45 
Table of Contents, Preface, ete. Sy. 27 
A paper by the Rey. Mr: Stack, received too late for publication in its 
proper place in the volume, will be found in the Appendix among other 
papers. The papers by Mr. W. T. L. Travers, and Dr. Knight, had the 
advantage of being corrected for the press by the authors. 
It has been found necessary to increase the edition from 850 to 1,000 
copies. It will be at once apparent that the large increase in the number 
of members made this necessary. It is possible that the accession to the 
Institute of the two new Societies of Westland and Hawke Bay may neces- 
sitate a still further increase in the next volume. 7 
During the Parliamentary recess a second edition of Vol. I. was printed 
at the Government Printing Office, with the consent of the Government. 
The expense of printing this edition is to be defrayed out of the sale of the 
volumes. The arrangement of the second edition, Vol. I., has been slightly 
altered from that of the first, and errors have been corrected. No material 
alteration has, however, taken place in the papers. 
It is advisable again to call the attention of Secretaries of incorporated — 
Societies and of authors to the necessity of sending manuscript in an easily 
readable form. The observance of this rule is of advantage both to the 
editor and authors, as the former is saved much unnecessary trouble, and 
the latter insure their remarks being correctly printed. It should be 
remembered that a volume written in 50 or 60 different hands, and in most 
cases not revised in print by the authors, is more liable to error than 4 
work by one person, who is presumably able to decipher his own writing 
and set the printers right. Bad writing is also a source of expense, aS 
papers, if at all illegible, have to be copied, and again they are liable to 
further error in being so copied, 
