HAWKE’S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 
Annvat Generat Mzetine. 7th February, 1881. 
<: The Right Rey. the Bishop of Waiapu, President, in the chair. 
. Exection oF Orricers ror 1881 :—President—The Right Rev. the 
Bishop of Waiapu; Vice-president—E. H. Bold, C.E.; Hon. Secretary and 
Treasurer—W. Colenso; Council—Messrs. Baker, Carlile, Colenso, Locke, 
Spencer, Sturm, and Weber; Auditor—T. K. Newton. 
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT. 
_ During the past winter session six ordinary meetings were held, at which nine papers 
prepared by members were read. 
The number of members is 85, being an increase of 7 on the number of the previous 
year ; but, in reality, the increase is 16, as three of the members whose names were 
printed in the annual report of last year, have since died, and six others have also left the 
_ Hawke’s Bay District, and therefore resigned. 
out the year some Zoological, Botanical, Palmontological, and Geological 
specimens haye been collected by a few of the members of the Institute for the Museum. 
Thirty volumes of valuable scientific works (mentioned in the last annual report as 
being ordered from England) have been received and are now in the library of the society, 
together with a few others obtained here in New Zealand, and another large lot, to the 
amount of £60, has lately been ordered from London. 
A further sum of £3 18s. 6d. has been contributed towards defraying expenses of 
_ publication of the “ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute : 
: S The audited statement of accounts shows a balance of £200 5s. 2d. remaining to the aoe 
credit of the society. : 
First Orpivary Meerinc. 9th May, 1881. 
Dr. Spencer, in the chair. Z 
1. “ Historical Incidents and Traditions of the Ancient Maoris of this 
East Coast, showing much of their habits, customs, and ways of thinking oe 
in the olden times—ages before they were first visited by Earopeett | 
res Part IL., by W. Colenso, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 3). : 
ene 2. The Hon. Seeretary also wa seve ineresing reinens of ine ant 
