NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE 



ANNIVEESARY ADDRESS, 



OF 



THE PRESIDENT, 

 HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE F. BOWEJ^T, aC.M.G. 



Delivered to the Members of the New Zealand Institute, at the 

 Anniversary Meeting, held on the 23rd July, 1870. 



Gentlemen, — 



In opening the proceedings of the l^ew Zealand Institute for the 

 session of 1870, it is very gratifying that I am again, as in my anniver- 

 sary address of last year, enabled to congratulate the members and the 

 community at large on the increasing success and popularity of this 

 association. During the recess, the Otago Institute has been affiliated ; 

 and it is understood that in ISTelson also, a society has been organized 

 which will soon seek incorporation with us, and so complete the union of 

 all the principal provinces and cities of the colony with this central 

 body. 



The volume of our Transactions and Proceedings, in 1869, has been 

 already long enough in the hands of the members of the Institute and of 

 the general public, to warrant my belief that they will be prepai*ed to 

 follow me in a rapid glance at its contents. A brief annual review of 

 this kind is the customary, and, on this occasion, the agreeable duty of 

 the office which I have the honour to hold as your President. 



When we consider the great variety of subjects discussed in the 

 pages of our Transactions, and the number of persons who appear there 

 as contributors and lecturers, it will, I think, be generally agreed that a 

 large amount of intellectual activity and of practical zeal exists among 

 our associates, although we are debarred by the geographical circum- 

 stances of the colony from achieving frequent meetings. 



One of the first and most interesting papers to which those who have 



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