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teescope to the Institute as trustees of the Carter Fund, there be built 
a Carter Memorial Observatory at the expense of the Carter Fund; that 
Society ; that not more than £3,000 be spent on the building of the 
observatory, the remainder of the Carter Fund being allowed to accumulate 
till it is sufficient to found a professorship of astronomy ; further, that the 
Standing Committee be empowered to take such action as may be necessary 
to carry out these resolutions. . 
The Hon. Librariam's wane and the Library Agreement were received 
and adopted, 
Нох. LrBRARIAN'S REPORT. 
At the time of the last annual meeting the books had been removed to Victoria 
University College, and a beginning had been made to sort them from the hopelessly 
inued thro 
Ah has been 
since August. Complete cataloguing has still to be done, with the careful examination 
that this will involve in order аст what gaps in series exist and with the 
Sis nden ry to aps. 
books are, for the anm on shelving provided by the College; and it 
that the обов of shelving taken up at = да абак xd ng Institute is 
еу less than the amount that it is already using. In te its agreement 
mount. 
ms she ae. take s the colle was taken by permission of the D of 
onsec via ip It is indebt ie kindest 
in allowing the be removed in the неа motor- 
consequence of the decision of the Wellington Philoso Society not to allow its 
books = p the M t was necessary to determine disc o a very difficult 
task i me n was undertaken by a joint committee, on which the 
Institute's represe and Professor Cotton. They had to spend 
r. Asto 
à great deal of iw in apti "ийсек: su. and they did the me 
Hon. Librarian. 
LIBRARY AGREEMENT. 
MEMORANDUM of the terms under which the library of the New Zealand Institute 
(here ын referred ia as че. Id formerly housed at the Dominion 
Maid Wellington, to ben ictoria University College, Wellington 
(hereinafter referred wi as eds e College), is 4o je the College. 
The said library of the Institute, сааб all — which in the capio. 
made thereto (hereinafter called “ the library”) is to be forwarded to t he College 
at the sole expense for carriage of the Тойда, апа i omia at Victoria University 
ll ildi of Gove i sien 
ege bui i 
of the College determine that this arrangement shall be ended and give at least twel 
calendar months' notice € that effect to the other body, = -- library shall with 
all convenient s speed be removed by the Institute at its sole 
The magia’ shall forthwith supply shelving which shall us poro ssi to accomm 
the libra This shall be erected at the College at the n: “ the Institute, wie 
may be adapted eed used as found necessary for the "dps e 
of t ge. 
The t Secretary of the Institute shall be a а те кабала of the library 
staff of the College, and shall accordingly attend at the College library for at least t half 
