NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Sixteenth Annual Report. 

 Meetings of the Board have been held on the following dates : 3rd August, 

 1883 ; 20th December, 1883 ; and 20th March, 1884. 



The three members who retired from the Board in conformity with 

 clause 6 of the Act were : Mr. W. T. L. Travers, the Hon. Mr. G. Randall 

 Johnson, and Dr. Hector ; Mr. Travers and Dr. Hector were reappointed, 

 and the Hon. Mr. G. M. Waterhouse fills the place of the Hon. Mr. G. 

 R. Johnson. 



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

 McKerrow, Hon. Mr. Rolleston, and Dr. Buller. 



A distinguished honorary member of the Institute has been lost in Dr. 

 Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the news of whose death lately reached here. 

 Dr. Hochstetter was among the first to be elected in 1870. There are now 

 three vacancies in the roll of honorary members. 



The following are the number of members now on the books of the 

 Institute : — 



Honorary Members ... ... ... 27 



Ordinary Members — 



Auckland Institute ... ... ... ... 305 



Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society ... ... Ill 



Wellington Philosophical Society ... ... 246 



Westland Institute ... ... ... ... 110 



Philosophical Institute of Canterbury ... 163 



Otago Institute ... ... ... 193 



Southland Institute ... 70 



Nelson Philosophical Society ... 86 



Total 1,311 



The volumes of Transactions now in stock are : Vol. I. (second edition), 

 400 ; vol. II., none ; vol. III., none ; vol. IV., none ; vol. V., 48; vol. VI., 

 47; vol. VII., 146; vol. VIII. , none; vol. IX., 150; vol. X., 180; vol. 

 XL, 60 ; vol. XII., 65 ; vol. XIII. , 68 ; vol. XIV., 90 ; vol. XV., 203 ; vol. 

 XVI., not fully distributed. 



The printing of Volume XVI. of Transactions of the year was commenced 

 the latter end of January and completed the end of April, and issued early 

 in May. The volume contains fifty-seven articles, and also addresses and 



