16 ` New Zealand Institute. 
they have made to the general geological survey of the Colony will be found in 
the various reports issued from the department for the current year. 
Observatories.—The Meteorological Department, and the Astronomical 
Observatory, for regulating the mean time for the Colony, both of which are 
under my direction, are in an efficient condition, the statistical information 
being published regularly, and exchanged with the chief Observatories in other 
parts of the world. : 
| James HECTOR. 
