Fourth Annuat Report by the Governors of the 
New ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
Meetines of the Board of Governors were held during the past year on the 
24th August, 12th September, Ist November, 1871 ; and 28th February and 
llth April, 1872. 
The following gentlemen were re-nominated to be Governors :—W. T. L. 
Travers, F.L.S., and Charles Knight, F.R.C.S. ; and a vacancy occasioned by 
the retirement of J. E. Fitzgerald, C.M.G., has not yet been filled up. 
The Governors elected by the affiliated Societies for the present year 
are:—His Honor William Rolleston, the Hon. W. B. D. Mantell, His Honor 
Mr. Justice Chapman. 
On the 11th April, 1872, Alfred Ludlam, Esq., resigned the honorary 
Treasurership, and the Hon. W. B. Mantell, M.L.C., accepted the office. 
In accordance with the provisions of Statute IV., three foreign members 
were elected; namely, J. E. Gray, Ph. D., F.R.S., Charles eS se MA F.R.S., 
William Saison Lindsay, M.D., F.R.S.E. 
The Institute now includes five affiliated Societies; the total number of 
members being 577, showing an increase of 24 on last year. 
Members, 
Wellington Philosophical Society s4 we ve 132 
Auckland Institute He Ges ees 157 
Philosophical Institute of Canterbury - H = 81 
Otago Institute ... sis a sia aa 136 - 
Nelson Association me 71 
The appended statement of accounts A o manner in which the 
endowment of the Institute has been applied. 
The fourth volume of the Transactions and Proceedings was issued in May 
last. It consists of 472 pages, and contains sixty-four original communications 
by forty-five authors, illustrated by nineteen lithographed plates. Of these 
papers, nineteen are on zoology, twelve on botany, nine on y; three on 
geology, and nineteen on miscellaneous subjects. 
The Board of Governors having decided that, in publication, preference is 
to be given to those papers which add to the knowledge of observed facts 
relative to New Zealand, several papers of a general character have been held 
back, or only published in an abridged form. 
