NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



ANNIVEESAEY ADDEESS 



THE PBESIDENT, 



HIS EXCELLENCY SIE W. F. D. JEEVOIS, 



G.C.M.G., O.B., etc., 



Delivebed to the Membees op the New Zealand Institute, at the 

 Anniversary Meeting, held on the 4th October, 1884. 



Plates I.-V. 



Gentlemen, — 



When I had the honour of presiding at the annual meeting in 

 1883, I chose as the subject for the inaugural address a brief review 

 of the history of the New Zealand Institute, and of some of the 

 advances made in the fields of science and literature during the 

 previous year. I do not propose on the present occasion to follow 

 the same course. Indeed, the annual volume of the Transactions 

 and Proceedings has been so long in the hands of members that the 

 time for commenting on the papers it contains is past. I will only 

 remark that the Institute is to be congratulated on the resuscitation 

 of the Nelson Philosophical Society. 



Before entering on my subject this evening, however, I wish to 

 make mention of one or two of the great men who have passed away 

 during the last twelve months. 



By the lamented death of Dr. von Hochstetter the Institute has 

 lost one of its honorary members, and another link with the early 

 history of the colony has been severed. In his able work on the 

 general and natural history of New Zealand, he has left behind him 

 not only a noble memorial of his labours during the six years he 

 spent here, but also a volume which will be of permanent interest to 

 the people of this country. 



The name of Edward Sabine, who has lately been gathered to 

 his fathers at the ripe age of ninety-five, seems to carry us back to a 



