Annual Meeting, 1923. . 741 
Publication Committee’s Report.—The report of this committee was 
received and adopted with the deletion of one paragraph. Mr. J. C. 
Andersen attended by request of the Board and gave information regarding 
the progress of the printing of Volume 54 and other matters. eee 
Marsden moved, and Dr. Cockayne seconded, That Volume 55 be n 
published until 1924. "The motion was lost. Dr. Cockayne, seconded pe 
Professor Marsden, proposed that what would be Volume 54 be now 
published in two volumes as Volumes 54 and 55. The d was lost. 
REPORT OF PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 
It is to be hoped that V ат Se (for 1922) may be issued towards the end of 
January. "There are several reasons for the delay— financial difficulties, an early session 
of Parliament, and an extra esce ot papers, many of great A Sev ver А, nir 
last ted. 
bad ine h difficulty, firstly in reducing t. the number of papers, С odddiy i in rédusi id ы 
length of many of those accepted. Reduction was made first m = Ааа them- 
selves, and in some cases a further reduction was made by cod conr 
In spite of the fact that authors were required t pay rur p berg 
papers are more gs illustrated than usual. The epu Exi this with pleasure, 
whilst at the same time it feels that the penalizing of enthusiastic workers is etre 
equitable nor M A paper good enough for acceptance should be accepted as 
dt it à ^ р 
ver rdin: easons, 
ures, or their equivalent, the author being put to no expense except 
for extra copies of Menu Tf, however, Pg author wishes to publish a longer paper 
or to illustrate more fully, ~ should be a t liberty to do so, subject, of course, to the 
usual оор. „Ко vided he is willing to pay for the additional space and illustrations. 
o many new species are саве with in the present volume that it has been felt that 
its value тойа. be enhanced by а full index, pris this has been сша; ; and if such 
index can be continued from year to year the necessary task of indexing the whole set 
of the T'ransactions will be a task of known гасы and not one whose magnitude 
grows with the тта. 
For the next volume only some thirty papers are іп hand— mostly short, a few 
of se cae length "and it will probably be possible to limit that volume to two hundred 
pages or les 
For the Committee. | танасы C. ANDERSEN, Hon. Editor. 
Research Grant Committees Report.—This was received. On the motion 
of Mr. Aston, seconded by Dr. Hilgendorf, it was resolved, ees a property 
list of books, apparatus, &c., bought out of the Research Grant Fund be 
compiled, PE circulated to members of the Board and cited in the 
Transactio 
vail motion of Mr. Aston, seconded by Dr. Cockayne, it was resolved 
that ‘the Research Grant Committee be asked to make a com mprehensive 
report on the state of all researches ideation with the Institute’s financial 
aid during the last ten years. It was resolved that those an in 
the Research Grant Report who asked for further grants be that 
their requests are held over until the Research Grant тате can give 
some idea of the state of this fund. 
Report OF THE RESEARCH GRANT COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDING 3lsT DECEMBER, 
1922. 
C. E. Adams, who in iei: w - granted $55, through the Wellington Philosophical 
Society, for astronomical instrum por n the 5th January, 1923, that a prism 
had b ured in England at a ves of p lis. id. He Mex tes that реч the prism 
са be wed it must 4 suitably mounted on the telescope w ке. The 
ti st of mounting is £12 and the camera £8, and he in application for an 
additions] £20 for this purpose 
