12 New Zealand Institute. 
The supply of volumes now in store is as follows :—Of Volume I., none ; 
Volume II., 58 ; Volume III., 53 ; Volume IV., 74 copies. 
The report of the Manager on the condition of the Museum and other 
establishments placed under his direction, is appended. Itshows that valuable 
additions have been made to the collections in the Museum during the past © 
year, but that the want of sufficient exhibiting space has rendered it necessary 
to remove a large portion of those additions from exhibition to the public. On 
this point the Governors feel it to be their duty to point out that the collections 
in the Museum cannot be properly exhibited, so that the public may derive 
full advantage from them, without the completion of the building as originally 
designed, 
The Governors also call attention to the expediency of increasing the staff 
of the Colonial Museum, especially as regards the preparation of articles of 
‘Natural History, so that collections of such objects may be distributed to the 
various Educational Institutions of the Colony in a form calculated to aid in 
the work of instruction in Natural History. 
G. F. Bowen, President. 
Wellington, 19th September, 1872. 
Accounts oF THE New ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 1871-72. 
RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURE. 
£a Q fal 
. 94 17 5 | Expenses of Volume IV < 39L O 0 
Vote is ee eye . 500 0 0 Misoellaneous—'ranalating, 
ontribution from bedien ' Binding, ete, 29 9 6 
Philosophical Soci 12 18 6 | Balance in hands of Treasurer. 195 13 5 
Sale of Volumes of Trdmoaclion § 2.0 
£615 17 11 £615 17 11 
WALTER MANTELL, 
Honorary Treasurer, 
17th September, 1872. 
REPORT BY MANAGER. 
Museum.—The collections in the Museum have been increased during the 
past year by the addition of 2,169 specimens. 
Birds.—The collection of New Zealand birds is now tolerably complete, 
and has been arranged in a suitable cabinet for reference, there being only a 
few of the specimens set up for exhibition. 
