Annual Meeting, 1923. 735 
Library Matters.—The draft of the agreement with Victoria College as 
to the housing of the Institute’s library in Victoria College was adopted. 
Two letters from Dr. Allan Thomson, dated 27th January, were read. The 
President, Professor Kirk, supplied the following report :— 
REMOVAL OF LIBRARY. 
The advantages contemplated in the housing of the ee s library at Victoria 
University College were—comparative immunity from danger of fire and more stringent 
custody, better supervision, and better arrangement than it агч Бані е = ensure at 
e Dominion Museum in its present circumstances. In the hope of securing these 
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Professorial Board, and, through it, with the College Council These menm 
resulted in an agreement one of whose features is that it allows very free access to 
the books on the part of members of the Institute 
t hoped that the Wellington Philoso hical Society would decide — its 
was op. 
library should go with that of the Institute ; but the society decided against this ве, 
although, in commo i affiliated societies, it was in favour of de е 
of the erui. ager els. that books of the Institute, of the prias 
Society, and of the on Museum were shelved together, and that the stamps 
of the ne ымыы had often been used at haphazard, with the zy that one 
series sometimes bore all t ps. it became necessary to determine е о\ оер 
of books this object a joint committee was up 
Institute was represented by ston and Dr. Cotton ; the Philosophical So oet ч 
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. Hamilton and Mr. Oliver, both members Ae the Museum staff, and representing 
its interests also. For a short — during the absence of these e кек иа, Шоу 
were relieved by Mr. Morgan and Mr. Phillipps. The task of the joint co was 
a very difficult one, involving a considerable amount of search in old ario h ED letter- 
, and other documents. There still remains a number of books in the galvanized- 
iron building in Sydney Street, and in the Museum itself, of which the omer 
not yet settled, and it is possible that among those that have been removed there 
i i uld be review 
he removal took place in November and December. The Board is much indebted 
. Hislop, Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, for the use of the Department’s 
for permission 
ing required for the books of the Muse Acting on the representations of the 
SE piel Society, it was decided to is ‚ Бан the Saisir on the east wall for the 
society’s books. 
The books recognized as the property of the Institute are now at Victoria College, 
and I am giving what time I can to sorting them. This is a very eae job, and one in 
which there is room for two or three volunteers. The. help of the Assistant Secretary 
been 
has not yet been available, as her time has y occupi € es Ойра е? м 
eeting. In any case, much of the pre aper work is too he 
Every effort wi to have ibrary in o as soon 
be made the 1 posible 
as been arranged that, where serial publications a already in the College library 
are incomplete, but are more nearly complete than in the Institute’s м, they shall, 
i mpleted from 
sible, be completed the Institute's pe used for that purpose, bearing 
а stamp “ Lent e New Zealand Institute °; and that where the pos e's serials 
complete ll, in like manner, be eted as far as possible fro 
the College RE main a considerable number of duplicate volumes 
be og These the Institute cannot , but it can 
to the request made y the Director of the Dominion Muse d to a similar request, 
if made, etor и the Sete garg ays ы to house the 
hem, under the necessary рї n afe and Pg 
ment, has been removed to the gree r Turnbull pn rary, and the Libra Mr. 
Johannes Andersen, has kindly agreed to give ү Elsdon Best, who is just now deed 
peur 
ks. 
I pg this report with a hearty asi erai of the immense amount of work 
done by n in connection with the removal. 
6th Жы. 1923. Н. B. KIRE. 
Position of Incorporated Societies. —The Hon. Treasurer read his reports 
on the incorporated societies, dated 11th April and 8th May, 1922. The 
Poverty Bay and the Wellington Societies were the only ones which had 
