NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Fifteenth Annual Eeport. 

 The Board held meetings on the following dates :— 8th August, 25th October, 

 1882 ; 15th January and 20th March, 1883. 



The members elected under clause 7 of the Act are : The Hon. Mr. 

 Eolleston, Mr. J. McKerrow, and Mr. Martin Chapman. The following 

 gentlemen were elected honorary members of the New Zealand Institute : 

 Sir William Thomson, F.B.S.; Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.B.S., C.B. ; and 

 Mr. K. L. Ellery, F.B.S., —there now being twenty-seven honorary 

 members. 



The members now on the roll of the Institute are : 



Honorary members ... ... ... • • • • • • 27 



Ordinary members- 

 Auckland Institute 320 



Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society ... 108 



Wellington Philosophical Society ... ... ... 289 



Westland Institute ... ... ... ... ... 87 



Philosophical Institute of Canterbury _ 163 



Otago Institute .. . ... ... ... ••• ••• 178 



Southland Institute ... 62 



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The printing of Volume XV. was commenced on the 10th January and 

 finished early in April, the first issue of the volumes being made about the 

 17th May. The volume contains sixty-two articles, also Presidents' 

 Addresses and abstracts of papers, which appear with the Proceedings 

 and Appendix. There are 586 pages of letter-press and 40 plates. 



The following is a division of the contents of the volume for comparison 

 with that of last year : — 



Miscellaneous 



Zoology 



Botany 



Chemistry ... 



Geology 



Proceedings 



Appendix 



1883. 



Pages. 



90 



1882. 

 Pages 

 200 



236 



144 



124 



104 



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60 



52 



26 



54 



50 



40 



586 



610 



