NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Twelfth Annual Eeport. 



Meetings of the Board were held on the following dates : — 21st July, 19th 

 November, 1879, and 17th February, 5th April, and 20th April, 1880. 



The members who retired from the Board in conformity with the Act 

 were Messrs. Travers, Mason, and Waterhouse. The two former gentlemen 

 were reappointed, and the Hon. G. Eandall Johnston was appointed by His 

 Excellency in the room of the Hon. Mr. Waterhouse. 



The Gentlemen elected Governors of the Institute by the incorporated 

 societies, under clause 7 of the Act, are Dr. BuUer, F.E.S., C.M.G. ; Mr. T. 

 Kirk, F.L.S. ; and Captain Eussell, M.H.E. 



The list of honorary members of the Institute having reached the number 

 prescribed by section 4 of the Eules and Statutes (viz., thirty), no nomina- 

 tions took place during the past year. 



The number of members now on the roll of the Institute is as follows : — 



Honorary members ... ... ... ... ... 30 



Ordinary members — 

 Auckland Institute 



j^u-x-zixiati-Lyx -LJj.cuiuu.uc/ ... ••> ••• • 



Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society ... 



... 78 



WeUington Philosophical Society 



... 269 



Nelson Association ... 



... 50 



Westland Institute 



... 121 



Philosophical Institute, Canterbury ... 



... 229 



Otago Institute... 



... 226 



1,277 



The printing of Vol. XII. was commenced in January and finished early 

 in May, but, owing to delay in getting the lithographed plates printed, the 

 volume was not ready for issue until the 8th of June. 



Vol. XII, contains 59 articles, and several Presidents' Addresses and 

 abstracts of papers which appear in the Proceedings and Appendix, There 

 are 14 plates and 538 pages of letterpress. 



