AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 
SPECIAL GENERAL Meerine. 4th January, 1872. 
T. Heale, President, in the chair. 
This meeting was held to consider the state of the Building Fund, and the 
President detailed the various steps taken towards the formation of such 
a fund. 
ANNUAL GENERAL Meetine. 13th May, 1872. 
T. Heale, President, in the chair. 
New members.—Hon. J. D. Ormond, Hon. C. J. Taylor, R. C. Jordan. 
The list of donations to the library and museum was read by the Secretary. 
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT. 
Seven meetings have been held during the past year, at which twenty 
papers were read. . 
The Museum has been lighted with gas and kept open till 9 p.m. on every 
Wednesday, and has been well attended. 
An effort has been made to raise funds for erecting a suitable building 
for a Public Museum and Free Library. The late Dr. Stratford liberally 
bequeathed £100 towards this object on condition of £400 being raised in 
sums of not less than £50. Liberal donations were also made by other 
people, but owing to the Provincial Council refusing to grant £1,000 in aid 
on condition of a similar amount being subscribed for privately the effort to 
raise the £2,500 required has been frustrated. 
Numerous and valuable donations to the Library and Museum have 
been made, including a large number of valuable works from Capt. F. W. 
Hutton, F.G.S. 
- Eighty volumes have been added to the Library by purchase out of the 
Provincial grant, and purchases for the Museum from the same source are 
now on the way from England. 
The receipts for the year ending 19th February, 1872, amount to £330 
19s. 3d., and the expenditure to £298 18s. 11d., leaving a balance in hand of 
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