OTAGO INSTITUTE. 
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First Meetine. 12th March, 1872. 
R. Gillies, Vice-President, in the chair. 
New member.—Charles Rous Marten. 
1, “Observations on the Zodiacal Light, tending to show its Connection 
with the Sun’s Motion in Space,” by H. Skey. (See Appendix, p. xliii.) 
2. “On the Taieri Floods,” by G. M. Barr. (See Transactions, p. 111.) 
ANNUAL Meetine. 22nd July, 1872. 
T. M. Hocken, M.R.C.S.E., Vice-President, in the chair. 
New members.—Professor Black, M.A., D.Sc., A. Fleming, M.D., G. M. 
Thomson, John Hardy, Thomas George, James Fulton. 
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council, in presenting its annual report, is again able to congratulate 
the members of the Society on its steady progress. Twelve papers have been 
read during the last year, several of which have been printed in the fourth 
volume of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 
An order for books to the value of £20 has been sent home, and at the 
same time a spectroscope of high class, to cost about £50, was ordered. 
Arrangements have also been made for the transmission of a further order 
for books to the amount of £45. ; 
The library of the Society has received valuable presents from the 
Smithsonian Institution at Washiugton, the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
of Harvard College, the Trustees of the Public Library at Melbourne, and 
from Mr. Justice Chapman. 
_ The total receipts for the year amounted to £139 3s. 11d., of which 
£79 11s. 6d. was received as subscriptions, and the expenditure to £140 13s. _ 
11d., but £115 of the amount set down as expenditure has been transferred 
to the Library Fund. Out of this £70 has been spent on books and a 
spectroscope. 
