OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



First Meeting. \2th March, 1872. 

 E,. Gillies, Vice-President, in the chair. 



New member. — Charles Rous Marten. 



1. " Observations on the Zodiacal Light, tending to show its Connection 



with the Sun's Motion in Space," by H. Skey. (See Appendix, p. xliii.) 



2. " On the Taieri Floods," by G. M. Barr. (See Transactions, p. 111.) 



Annual Meeting. 227id July, 1872. 



T. M. Hocken, M.R.C.S.E., Vice-President, in the chair. 



New members. — Professor Black, M.A, D.Sc, A. Fleming, M.D., G. M. 

 Thomson, John Hardy, Thomas George, James Fulton. 



ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council, in presenting its annual report, is again able to congratulate 

 the members of the Society on its steady progress. Twelve papers have been 

 read during the last year, several of which have been printed in the fourth 

 volume of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 



An order for books to the value of £20 has been sent home, and at the 

 same time a spectroscope of high class, to cost about £50, was ordered. 



Arrangements have also been made for the transmission of a further order 

 for books to the amount of £45. 



The library of the Society has received valuable presents from the 

 Smithsonian Institution at Washington, the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 of Harvard College, the Trustees of the Public Library at Melbourne, and 

 from Mr. Justice Chapman. 



The total receipts for the year amounted to £139 3s. lid., of which 

 £79 lis, 6d. was received as subscriptions, and the expenditure to £140 13s. 

 lid., but £115 of the amount set down as expenditure has been transferred 

 to the Library Fund. Out of this £70 has been spent on books and a 

 spectroscope. 



