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Various sums have been expended in procuring collections of 

 specimens useful for exchange, and the amount of ,£51 6s. has been 

 granted in aid of the Museum funds of affiliated Societies, while a 

 balance of £33 9s. 8d. remains in the hands of the Treasurer. 



Pour Societies were granted incorporation on the following dates : — 



Date. No. of Mem. 



"Wellington Philosophical Society . 10th June, 1868. 104 



Auckland Institute . . „ 68 



Philosophical Institute of Canter- 

 bury .... 22nd Oct., 1868. 57 



Westland Naturalists' and Accli- 

 matization Society . . „ 29 



In March, 1868, one of the first Governors, the Hon. Mr. W. B. D. 

 Mantell, retired from the Board to allow of the appointment of the 

 Manager as a Governor, with the view of ficilitating business. 



In accordance with the Act, the following Governors retired from 

 the Board, but were re-nominated, viz. : — Sir David Monro, A. Liidlam, 

 Esq., J. E. FitzGerald, Esq. 



Notices were received from the Wellington Philosophical Society on 

 3rd November, 1868, and the Auckland Institute on 5th January, 1869, 

 that they had elected, respectively, J. C. Crawford, Esq., and Dr. 

 D. Pollen, to be Governors according to the Act. 



The other two Societies having joined at too late a period of the 

 year to permit the provision of the Act being carried out, they are not 

 represented at the Board during this year. Seven meetings were held 

 during the Session of the Assembly of 1868, in the Colonial Museum, 

 at which addresses and lectures were delivered by the following gentle- 

 men : — His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, Mr. PitzGerald, Hon. Mr. 

 Mantell, Mr. Travers, Dr. Hector, and Mr. Wakefield. 



D. Monro, Chairman. 



