110 Proceedings. 
Grants from the Hutton. Memorial Fund. 
r. C. Chilton in 1911 was granted £10 from the Hutton Fund ыер, the cost 
of prepar p iuo for a revision of the New Zealand o: a. These 
illustrations were used in papers published in the T'ransactions (vols. 4 44), in 
Journal = the Linnean Society (vol. 32), and in Annals of Natural ains (aen 8, 
Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf i in 1914 was granted £10 for apparatus required for тога 
оп artesian wells in Canterbury. oney was expen in making and fixing apparatus 
for securing à continuous record of th fluctuations in the height of an. artesian % 
urthe ined. _ А paper 
collected were sent to Major Broun and to Dr. Chi 
Major T. Broun in 1916 was granted £50 eimi s the publication of his researches 
on the New Zealand Coleopter 
Mr. W. R. B. Oliver in 1915. was granted £15 to са ld aea expenses ze cost 
of apparatus for a visit to Lord Howe Island, underta ovember, 1913 ; in 
the Transactions (zol 49, pp. 94-161) he published a vitm p ieu tied “ The Vegetation 
Lo 
Portobello ps Fish-hatchery (G. M. Thomson, Esq.) was granted £25 in 1916 
- — uting research on the distribution of native marine iive €— Investigations 
e carried on, and a NM. written by Mr. Anderto rator of the hatchery, 
pai the Hon. G. M. Thomson, on the М org of the ae o Fish. hatchery, contained 
statements of all ur" has been don 
Mi Mes ie was granted £10 for a research on un New 
Zéaland Mollusca. pam o fow illustrations for two papers published in the Tra nsactions 
(vols. 51, 53) were ara do r Miss Mestayer with portion of the grant, bal for the 
last po years she has mide ыл that no work has been done 
Cotton in 1915 was granted £15 коў атн an investigation. of the 
ch danagin ‘features of the New Z ealand coast, ^ as he obtained a gran t from 
another source he surrendered this gra 
Property-list. 
The following is a list of apparatus aede by the aid of a grant from the 
Research Fund and in use by the various grantee n a research is completed 
the ае used in p^ research is returned. to the сеня for use by future research 
In ed Legge of the apres at deter are the following: One block plane, 
cost 9s. ; camera, £15 e tenon saw, { 
At = мен їп ki nds d s earch brio as: Aerial insulators, cost’ £4 4s. ; SF 
condensors, £12 8s. ; altitude d azimuth instrument, <р; analy ie balance, £36 ; 
ball mill, £23 12s. 9d. ; castings, fittings, uw for , £56 6 15s. gd.; ‘ Big Ben 
alarm clocks (2), £3 7s. 6d. ; As cages (an imal), £3 базы £1 lls.; chemical balance, 
£37; opum pem same, £4 14s. 3d. ; condensers, g1 17s. 11d. ; Duddell thermogalvano- 
meter, 14 electric ice and fittings, £28 15s. 3d. ; electric oven, £14 14s. 5d. ; 
Me epit: a 168 8а. ; Kjedahl ad alge £1 15s. ; on eye-picc», £17 28. 5 
ct d pur ft, £4 1 s. 6d.; photometer, £2 108; 
range-finder, £4 ; scales and — moto r, 10s. ; ox Ss. 6d. ; sphere, £25 158. ; 
— apparatus, £1 5s. 4d. ; E es зага, < s. 6d.; telephones (one у 
“> 
£3 2 ing-vessel, porcelain ‘echoes £95; tide- predicting machine, £63 175. 
Vier Siyke's desees £15. 4 
Publication е Report.—Delay in publication of volume 5 
A discussion took place this delay, and a letter from the Hon. Editor, 
dated 25th January, 1994, > was read. A message was received from Intern? 
Affairs Department that the Government Printer has promised to do 
utmost, if all papers are in his hands before the end of January, to have 
volume 55 published by the end of July, 1924. | 
On the motion of Mr. Morgan, seconded by Мг. Hosen Е. was resolved — 
That the printing of the Transactions for the two years and 1923 1 ш. 
one volume, No. 55, be entrusted to the Government Pee i 
